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PHILOSOPHER

Bayazid Bastami

804 - 874

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Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr bin ʿĪsā bin Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī (Persian: بایزید بسطامی), was a Persian Sufi from north-central Iran. Known to future Sufis as Sultān-ul-Ārifīn ("King of the Gnostics"), Bisṭāmī is considered to be one of the expositors of the state of fanā, the notion of dying in mystical union with Allah. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bayazid Bastami has received more than 546,785 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Bayazid Bastami is the 225th most popular philosopher (down from 207th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Iran (down from 57th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iranian Philosopher.

Bayazid Bastami is most famous for the following verse: "I am the Truth, and the Truth is I." Bayazid Bastami was a Sufi mystic who lived in the 11th century. He is most famous for his verse which says that he is the truth and the truth is he.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Bayazid Bastami ranks 225 out of 1,081. Before him are Isaiah Berlin, Baltasar Gracián, Paul Feyerabend, Giorgio Agamben, Milarepa, and Bernard Bolzano. After him are Imre Lakatos, Cratylus, Gaston Bachelard, Pelagius, Benjamin Constant, and Michael Psellos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 804, Bayazid Bastami ranks 1. After him are Ermengarde of Tours and Fujiwara no Yoshifusa. Among people deceased in 874, Bayazid Bastami ranks 1. After him are Hasan al-Askari, Antipope John VIII, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious, and Unruoch III of Friuli.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Bayazid Bastami ranks 62 out of 528. Before him are Cyaxares (-700), Ghazan (1271), Cyrus I (-690), Jami (1414), Shirin Ebadi (1947), and Babak Khorramdin (798). After him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī (1380), Xerxes II of Persia (-500), Shapur II (309), Achaemenes (-800), Attar of Nishapur (1145), and Gaykhatu (1300).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iran

Among philosophers born in Iran, Bayazid Bastami ranks 3. Before him are Al-Ghazali (1058) and Al-Tabari (839). After him are Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1149), Miskawayh (932), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Mazdak (450), Mulla Sadra (1571), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Al-Shahrastani (1086), Al-Baydawi (1201), and Al-Taftazani (1322).

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