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Fuzûlî

1494 - 1556

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Muhammad bin Suleyman (Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Süleyman oğlu, مَحمد سلیمان اوغلی; 1483–1556), better known by his pen name Fuzuli (Füzuli, فضولی), was a 16th-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure in both Azerbaijani and Ottoman literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fuzûlî has received more than 138,451 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Fuzûlî is the 299th most popular writer (down from 270th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iraqi Writer.

Fuzûlî is most famous for his love poetry.

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  • 140k

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  • 69.87

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  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Fuzûlî ranks 299 out of 5,755Before him are Marguerite Duras, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Margaret Mitchell, Mikhail Sholokhov, Lucan, and Saadi Shirazi. After him are Heinrich von Kleist, Alberto Moravia, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Italo Calvino, Marguerite de Navarre, and Roger Martin du Gard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1494, Fuzûlî ranks 4Before him are Suleiman the Magnificent, Francis I of France, and François Rabelais. After him are Georgius Agricola, Pontormo, Bona Sforza, Jean Parisot de Valette, Leo Africanus, Lucas van Leyden, William Tyndale, and Rosso Fiorentino. Among people deceased in 1556, Fuzûlî ranks 2Before him is Ignatius of Loyola. After him are Pietro Aretino, Humayun, Lorenzo Lotto, Thomas Cranmer, Frederick II, Elector Palatine, Martin Agricola, Maximus the Greek, Saitō Dōsan, Francesco Venier, and Richard Chancellor.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Fuzûlî ranks 28 out of 338Before him are Belshazzar (-600), Ahmad Sanjar (1100), Khosrow II (570), Al-Ma'mun (786), Nur ad-Din (1116), and Idris (-3500). After him are Gudea (-2200), Muhammad al-Mahdi (869), Nabopolassar (-658), Jalal Talabani (1933), Ismail al-Jazari (1136), and Ur-Nammu (-2200).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Fuzûlî ranks 3Before him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780) and Al-Masudi (896). After him are Ahmad ibn Fadlan (900), Enheduanna (-2300), Berossus (-400), Ibn al-Jawzi (1116), Al-Mutanabbi (915), Ibn Sirin (653), Ibn al-Nadim (1000), Ibn Khallikan (1211), and Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718).