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Ismail I

1487 - 1524

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Ismail I (Persian: اسماعیل یکم, romanized: Ismāʿīl; 14 July 1487 – 23 May 1524) was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until his death in 1524. His reign is often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history, as well as one of the gunpowder empires. The rule of Ismail I is one of the most vital in the history of Iran. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ismail I has received more than 1,435,584 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Ismail I is the 100th most popular writer (down from 97th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Iran and the most popular Iranian Writer.

Ibn Ismail is most famous for his work on the "Treatise on the Astrolabe" and the "Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology". The "Treatise on the Astrolabe" is a mathematical text that explains how to use an astrolabe, a type of ancient astronomical instrument. The "Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology" is a text that explains how to use an astrolabe to predict future events.

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  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Malay Made Simple
1997
Swan Song
1998
The African state
Politics and government, Comparative government, Case studies
2002
Electrochemical Reactors: Their Science and Technology : Part A
1989
Inner Voice
2007
On-chip inductance in high speed integrated circuits
Inductance, Very high speed integrated circuits, Circuits & components
2001

Page views of Ismail IS by language

Over the past year Ismail I has had the most page views in the with 281,972 views, followed by English (272,032), and Turkish (164,048). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bengali (355.01%), Malagasy (313.45%), and Czech (238.48%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ismail I ranks 100 out of 7,302. Before him are Erich Maria Remarque, Emily Brontë, Matsuo Bashō, George Sand, Marquis de Sade, and Jonathan Swift. After him are James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Paulo Coelho, Abu Nuwas, Du Fu, and André Gide.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1487, Ismail I ranks 1. After him are Pope Julius III, John Zápolya, Pedro de Mendoza, Bernard van Orley, Petru Rareș, Michael Stifel, William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, Anna of Brandenburg, Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona, and Catherine of Mecklenburg. Among people deceased in 1524, Ismail I ranks 2. Before him is Vasco da Gama. After him are Giulia Farnese, Claude of France, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Joachim Patinir, Marko Marulić, Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan, Andrea Solari, Salaì, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, and Hans Holbein the Elder.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ismail I ranks 11 out of 631. Before him are Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ali Khamenei (1939), Darius III (-380), and Harun al-Rashid (766). After him are Abu Nuwas (762), Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865), Jabir ibn Hayyan (721), Esther (-600), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), and Hafez (1325).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Ismail I ranks 1. After him are Abu Nuwas (762), Hafez (1325), Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), Ferdowsi (940), 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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