WRITER

Khaqani

1126 - 1199

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Afzal al-Dīn Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿOthmān (Persian: افضل‌الدّین بدیل بن علی بن عثمان), commonly known as Khāqānī (Persian: خاقانی, IPA: [xɒːɣɒːˈniː], c. 1120 – c. 1199), was a major Persian poet and prose-writer. He was born in Transcaucasia in the historical region known as Shirvan, where he served as an ode-writer to the Shirvanshahs. His fame most securely rests upon the qasidas collected in his Divān, and his autobiographical travelogue Tohfat al-ʿErāqayn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khaqani has received more than 99,005 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Khaqani is the 1,320th most popular writer (down from 1,196th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Azerbaijani Writer.

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  • 99k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Khaqani ranks 1,320 out of 7,302. Before him are Matteo Bandello, Ubertino of Casale, Sadegh Hedayat, Rasul Gamzatov, Zachris Topelius, and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak. After him are Anthony Bourdain, Lee Child, Khaled Hosseini, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, and Blaise de Vigenère.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1126, Khaqani ranks 3. Before him are Averroes, and William I of Sicily. After him are Mieszko III the Old, Peter I of Courtenay, Michael the Syrian, Sibylla of Burgundy, Anvari, and John Doukas. Among people deceased in 1199, Khaqani ranks 6. Before him are Richard I of England, Minamoto no Yoritomo, Stefan Nemanja, Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, and Joan of England, Queen of Sicily. After him are Geng Ding, Michael the Syrian, Raymond IV, Count of Tripoli, and Benedicta Hvide.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Khaqani ranks 24 out of 232. Before him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812), Ali Asadov (1956), Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh (1884), Pavel Florensky (1882), Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885), and Mehriban Aliyeva (1964). After him are Tofiq Bahramov (1925), Muslim Magomayev (1942), Tadj ol-Molouk (1896), Fatali Khan Khoyski (1875), Zarifa Aliyeva (1923), and Shirali Muslimov (1805).

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Among WRITERS In Azerbaijan

Among writers born in Azerbaijan, Khaqani ranks 5. Before him are Nizami Ganjavi (1141), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Zecharia Sitchin (1920), and Mirza Fatali Akhundov (1812). After him are Banine (1905), Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794), Mahsati (1089), Samad Vurgun (1906), Ahmad Javad (1892), Huseyn Javid (1882), and Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1869).

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