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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 57,277 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Asadi Tusi is the 2,833rd most popular writer (up from 3,366th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Iran (up from 263rd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

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  • 2.81

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Asadi Tusi ranks 2,833 out of 5,755Before him are S. N. Goenka, Katherine Jackson, Abraham Sutzkever, Johann Ernst Glück, Ephraim Chambers, and James A. Michener. After him are Yuli Daniel, Bernhard Grzimek, Thomas Kyd, Mihály Vörösmarty, Joan Brossa, and Hendrik Willem van Loon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 999, Asadi Tusi ranks 2Before him is Bao Zheng.  Among people deceased in 1072, Asadi Tusi ranks 10Before him are Peter Damian, Antipope Honorius II, Ouyang Xiu, Bagrat IV of Georgia, Ordulf, Duke of Saxony, and Adalbert of Hamburg. After him are Ali Hujwiri, Hereward the Wake, and Stigand.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Asadi Tusi ranks 244 out of 528Before him are Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854), Cassandra Clare (1973), Ahmad Kasravi (1890), Ariobarzanes of Persis (-368), Gotarzes II of Parthia (10), and Phraates I (-190). After him are Ubayd Zakani (1301), Raffi (1835), Ahmad Jannati (1927), Vonones II (-25), Marjane Satrapi (1969), and Mirza Kuchik Khan (1880).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Asadi Tusi ranks 30Before him are Nima Yooshij (1897), Ahmad Shamlou (1925), Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), Parvin E'tesami (1907), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), and Cassandra Clare (1973). After him are Ubayd Zakani (1301), Raffi (1835), Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Samad Behrangi (1939), and Subh-i-Azal (1831).