WRITER

Ibn Kemal

1468 - 1536

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Şemseddin Ahmed (1469–1534), better known by his pen name Ibn Kemal (also Ibn Kemal Pasha) or Kemalpaşazâde ("son of Kemal Pasha"), was an Ottoman historian, Shaykh al-Islām, jurist and poet. He was born into a distinguished military family in Edirne and as a young man he served in the army and later studied at various madrasas and became the Kadı of Edirne in 1515. He had Iranian roots on his mother's side. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Kemal has received more than 70,882 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ibn Kemal is the 2,429th most popular writer (up from 2,628th in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 783rd in 2019) and the 70th most popular Turkish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 71k

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  • 54.77

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Tokat Valiliği Şeyhülislam İbn Kemâl Araştırma Merkezinin tertip ettiği Şeyhülislâm İbn Kemâl Sempozyumu
Congresses
Inançta Aydinlatan Mesaj
Galatât ül-avam
Errors of usage, Turkish language
Tokat valiliǧi Şeyhulislâm Ibn Kemâl araştirma merkezinin tertip ettiǧi Şeyhulislâm Ibn Kemâl Sempozyumu

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ibn Kemal ranks 2,429 out of 7,302Before him are Noor Inayat Khan, Niccolò Tommaseo, Paul Hazard, Dominique Lapierre, Philippe de Mornay, and Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse. After him are Mihail Sebastian, María Elena Walsh, Mary Mapes Dodge, Zhou Daguan, Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, and Miguel Delibes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1468, Ibn Kemal ranks 7Before him are Pope Paul III, John, Elector of Saxony, Basil Fool for Christ, Charles I, Duke of Savoy, Juan de Zumárraga, and Tomé Pires. After him are Cornelis Engebrechtsz., Juan del Encina, Johannes Werner, Francesco Donato, Henry the Middle, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria. Among people deceased in 1536, Ibn Kemal ranks 17Before him are John of Leiden, Cecilia Gallerani, George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, Gil Vicente, Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Gonzalo Guerrero. After him are Jacob Hutter, Felice della Rovere, Bernhard III, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Juan Pizarro, Marino Sanuto the Younger, and Daniel Hopfer.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Ibn Kemal ranks 625 out of 1,347Before him are Theodora Angelina (1190), Bion of Smyrna (-300), Nureddin Pasha (1873), John II of Trebizond (1262), Antiochus Kantemir (1708), and Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha (1667). After him are Aristides Quintilianus (150), Albinus (100), Nurgül Yeşilçay (1976), Tevfik Esenç (1904), Isaac Komnenos (1113), and Rauf Orbay (1881).

Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Ibn Kemal ranks 70Before him are Methodius of Olympus (260), Zabel Yesayan (1878), Phocylides (-560), Cigerxwîn (1903), Bion of Smyrna (-300), and Antiochus Kantemir (1708). After him are Chariton (100), Parthenius of Nicaea (-1), John of Ephesus (507), Timotheus of Miletus (-450), Theodore Prodromos (1115), and Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil (1865).