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Ali-Shir Nava'i

1441 - 1501

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'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī (Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, Persian: نظام‌الدین علی‌شیر نوایی) was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and painter who was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature. Nava'i believed that his native Chagatai Turkic language was superior to Persian for literary purposes, an uncommon view at the time and defended this belief in his work titled Muhakamat al-Lughatayn (The Comparison of the Two Languages). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ali-Shir Nava'i has received more than 278,535 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Ali-Shir Nava'i is the 393rd most popular writer (down from 330th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 11th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Afghan Writer.

Ali-shir nava'i is most famous for his poem "The Book of Kings" which is a retelling of the story of Rustam and Sohrab from the Shahnameh.

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  • 68.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 393 out of 7,302. Before him are Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gregory of Tours, Attar of Nishapur, Alice Munro, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, and Sándor Márai. After him are Ghalib, Sándor Petőfi, Erich von Däniken, O. Henry, Jacques Prévert, and Raymond Chandler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1441, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 1. After him are Danjong of Joseon, Charlotte of Savoy, Ernest, Elector of Saxony, Topa Inca Yupanqui, Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, Martín Alonso Pinzón, Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Antonio de Nebrija, Francisco de Borja, and Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1501, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 1. After him are John I Albert, Agostino Barbarigo, Gaspar Corte-Real, Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria, Mesih Pasha, Constantine Lascaris, Pero Escobar, Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine, Margaret of Thuringia, and Konstantin Mihailović.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 9 out of 177. Before him are Abbas the Great (1571), Roxana (-347), Hamid Karzai (1957), Abu Dawood (817), Humayun (1508), and Mahmud of Ghazni (971). After him are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Hafizullah Amin (1929), and Amanullah Khan (1892).

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Among WRITERS In Afghanistan

Among writers born in Afghanistan, Ali-Shir Nava'i ranks 2. Before him are Rumi (1207). After him are Khaled Hosseini (1965), Sanai (1080), Rabia Balkhi (1000), Gulbadan Begum (1523), Unsuri (980), Farrukhi Sistani (980), Atiq Rahimi (1962), Nadia Anjuman (1981), Nadia Ghulam (1985), and Niloofar Rahmani (1992).

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