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Bulleh Shah

1680 - 1757

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Sayyid Abdullāh Shāh Qādrī (Punjabi: [sə'jəd əbdʊ'laːɦ ʃaːɦ qaːdɾiː]; c. 1680–1757), known popularly as Baba Bulleh Shah and vocatively as Bulleya, was a Punjabi revolutionary philosopher, reformer and Sufi poet, universally regarded as the 'Father of Punjabi Enlightenment'; and one of the greatest poets in the Punjabi language. He criticised powerful religious, political, and social institutions; and is revered as the 'Poet of the People' amongst Punjabis. Born in Uch, Subah of Multan, Bulleh Shah belonged to a family of religious scholars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bulleh Shah has received more than 1,788,657 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Bulleh Shah is the 2,506th most popular writer, the 41st most popular biography from Pakistan and the 5th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bulleh Shah ranks 2,506 out of 7,302. Before him are Carlos Marighella, Balthasar Russow, Herman Gorter, Annie M. G. Schmidt, Alice B. Toklas, and Gustave Aimard. After him are René Crevel, Theodore Prodromos, Xu Zhimo, Ron Kovic, Okakura Kakuzō, and Ewald Christian von Kleist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1680, Bulleh Shah ranks 10. Before him are Saliha Sultan, Charles Vane, James Anderson, Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Richard Cantillon, and Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria. After him are Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, John Machin, Ephraim Chambers, Emanuele d'Astorga, and Barthold Heinrich Brockes. Among people deceased in 1757, Bulleh Shah ranks 14. Before him are Johann Stamitz, Siraj ud-Daulah, Robert-François Damiens, 7th Dalai Lama, David Hartley, and Amursana. After him are Antoine Pesne, Edward Vernon, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Johann Samuel König, Vakhushti of Kartli, and Maximilian Ulysses Browne.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Bulleh Shah ranks 41 out of 217. Before him are Amrita Pritam (1919), Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), L. K. Advani (1927), Yahya Khan (1914), Asif Ali Zardari (1955), and Hamida Banu Begum (1527). After him are Nawaz Sharif (1949), Rahman Baba (1632), Krishna Sobti (1925), Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), Lokaksema (147), and Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Bulleh Shah ranks 5. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), and Amrita Pritam (1919). After him are Rahman Baba (1632), Krishna Sobti (1925), Tariq Ali (1943), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690).

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