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Ferdowsi

940 - 1020

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Abu'l-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (also Firdawsi, Persian: ابوالقاسم فردوسی توسی; 940 – 1019/1025) was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian-speaking countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdowsi has received more than 1,256,879 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 98 in 2019). Ferdowsi is the 220th most popular writer (down from 210th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Iran (down from 30th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Iranian Writer.

The Persian poet Ferdowsi is most famous for his epic poem, the Shahnameh, which is the national epic of Iran.

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  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 100

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ferdowsi ranks 220 out of 7,302. Before him are Carlo Goldoni, Diogenes Laërtius, Terence, Quintilian, Pierre Corneille, and Tomas Tranströmer. After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer, J. K. Rowling, Bram Stoker, Torquato Tasso, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Prosper Mérimée.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 940, Ferdowsi ranks 2. Before him is Hugh Capet. After him are Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Mieszko I of Poland, Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, Eadwig, Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, Doubravka of Bohemia, Baldwin III, Count of Flanders, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, and Henry III, Duke of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1020, Ferdowsi ranks 2. Before him is Leif Erikson. After him are Abhinavagupta, Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, Al-Sijzi, Trdat, Malusha, Åsta Gudbrandsdatter, Melus of Bari, Gagik I of Armenia, and Ælfric of Eynsham.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ferdowsi ranks 32 out of 631. Before him are Nader Shah (1688), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Khosrow I (501), Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), Reza Shah (1878), and Salman the Persian (568). After him are Hassan Rouhani (1948), Darius II (-475), Nizam al-Mulk (1018), Shams Tabrizi (1185), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), and Antiochus III the Great (-241).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Ferdowsi ranks 5. Before him are Ismail I (1487), Abu Nuwas (762), Hafez (1325), and Mansur Al-Hallaj (858). After him are Shams Tabrizi (1185), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Jami (1414), Doris Lessing (1919), Attar of Nishapur (1145), and Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724).

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