WRITER

Asadi Tusi

999 - 1072

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Abu Nasr Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi (Persian: ابونصر علی بن احمد اسدی طوسی; c. 1000 – 1073) was a Persian poet, linguist and author. He was born at the beginning of the 11th century in Tus, Iran, in the province of Khorasan, and died in the late 1080s in Tabriz. Asadi Tusi is considered an important Persian poet of the Iranian national epics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Asadi Tusi has received more than 61,432 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Asadi Tusi is the 2,638th most popular writer (up from 2,822nd in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Iran (down from 244th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Iranian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 61k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Le livre de Gerchasp
1926
Lughat-i Furs
Persian language, Dictionaries
1957
Garsaspname
Fiction, action & adventure, Biography
2024
Garshāsbnāmah
1927
Le livre de Gerchasp
1926
Garshasabnamah
1889
Garshāsbnā
1938

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Asadi Tusi ranks 2,638 out of 7,302. Before him are Tian Han, Eric Carle, Censorinus, Tayeb Salih, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Rahman Baba. After him are Richard Bandler, Mary Astell, Duris of Samos, Jean Ray, Elio Vittorini, and Jules Supervielle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 999, Asadi Tusi ranks 2. Before him is Bao Zheng.  Among people deceased in 1072, Asadi Tusi ranks 11. Before him are Ouyang Xiu, Antipope Honorius II, Al-Qushayri, Bagrat IV of Georgia, Adalbert of Hamburg, and Ordulf, Duke of Saxony. After him are Ali Hujwiri, Hawise, Duchess of Brittany, Hereward the Wake, and Stigand.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Asadi Tusi ranks 258 out of 631. Before him are Mohammad Beheshti (1928), Parvin E'tesami (1907), Ubayd Zakani (1301), Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (1940), Gholamreza Takhti (1930), and Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935). After him are Massoud Rajavi (1948), Mithridates IV of Parthia (null), Mostafa Chamran (1932), Ariobarzanes of Persis (-368), Farahnaz Pahlavi (1963), and Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Asadi Tusi ranks 31. Before him are Ahmad Shamlou (1925), Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), Nima Yooshij (1897), Raffi (1835), Parvin E'tesami (1907), and Ubayd Zakani (1301). After him are Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), Saib Tabrizi (1592), Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995), Subh-i-Azal (1831), Mastoureh Ardalan (1805), and Sohrab Sepehri (1928).

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