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Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

1886 - 1951

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Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (Persian: محمدتقی بهار; also romanized as Mohammad-Taqī Bahār; 10 December 1886 in Mashhad – 22 April 1951 in Tehran), widely known as Malek osh-Sho'arā (Persian: ملک‌الشعراء) and Malek osh-Sho'arā Bahār ("poet laureate," literally: the king of poets), was a renowned Iranian poet, scholar, politician, journalist, historian and Professor of Literature. Although he was a 20th-century poet, his poems are fairly traditional and strongly nationalistic in character. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammad-Taqi Bahar has received more than 102,813 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Mohammad-Taqi Bahar is the 3,243rd most popular writer (down from 3,085th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from Iran (down from 266th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Iranian Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 3,243 out of 7,302. Before him are Mickey Spillane, Monteiro Lobato, Simon of Kéza, Paul Johnson, Kim Hyon-hui, and Karl Philipp Moritz. After him are Frédéric Beigbeder, Francišak Bahuševič, Jules Vallès, Hedwig Dohm, Edward Bellamy, and Kekaumenos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 153. Before him are Ernst May, Radhabinod Pal, Leo G. Carroll, Stanisław Leśniewski, Dimitri Uznadze, and John Cromwell. After him are Catherine Desnitski, Constant Permeke, Malak Hifni Nasif, Peter Freuchen, Alexander Svanidze, and Roberto María Ortiz. Among people deceased in 1951, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 95. Before him are Fumiko Hayashi, Pedro Salinas, Robert Broom, José Enrique Varela, Selim Palmgren, and André Gobert. After him are Reggie Walker, László Almásy, John Paine, Karl Koller, Henry Taylor, and Gustave Sandras.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 305 out of 631. Before him are Hossein Salami (1960), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), Amastrine (-400), Jafar Khan (1800), Sadegh Khalkhali (1926), and Kader Abdolah (1954). After him are Kushyar Gilani (971), Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Azar Nafisi (1955), Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), Sayed Morad Khan (1800), and Majid Majidi (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Mohammad-Taqi Bahar ranks 39. Before him are Saib Tabrizi (1592), Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995), Subh-i-Azal (1831), Mastoureh Ardalan (1805), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), and Kader Abdolah (1954). After him are Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Azar Nafisi (1955), Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923), Ibn Bibi (1250), Simin Behbahani (1927), and Samad Behrangi (1939).

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