WRITER

Rahman Baba

1632 - 1706

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Abdur Rahmān Momand (Pashto: عبدالرحمان بابا; c. 1632 – 1706) or Rahmān Bābā (Pashto: رحمان بابا), was a renowned Afghan Sufi Saint, member of Sufi Dervish and poet from Peshawar (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) during the Mughal era. He, along with his contemporary Khushal Khan Khattak, is considered among the most popular poets of the Pashto language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rahman Baba has received more than 327,049 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Rahman Baba is the 2,637th most popular writer (up from 3,011th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 44th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Pakistani Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rahman Baba
2012

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rahman Baba ranks 2,637 out of 7,302. Before him are Hella Haasse, Tian Han, Eric Carle, Censorinus, Tayeb Salih, and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. After him are Asadi Tusi, Richard Bandler, Mary Astell, Duris of Samos, Jean Ray, and Elio Vittorini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1632, Rahman Baba ranks 17. Before him are Michael I Apafi, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Phetracha, Francesco Provenzale, Feodosia Morozova, and Giovanni Battista Vitali. After him are Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, Louis Bourdaloue, and Tylman van Gameren. Among people deceased in 1706, Rahman Baba ranks 8. Before him are Pierre Bayle, Peter II of Portugal, 6th Dalai Lama, Kimpa Vita, Arsenije III Čarnojević, and Andreas Werckmeister. After him are Georg Joseph Kamel, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Ferdinand de Marsin, Godfried Schalcken, John Evelyn, and Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin.

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Others Deceased in 1706

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Rahman Baba ranks 43 out of 217. Before him are L. K. Advani (1927), Yahya Khan (1914), Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Hamida Banu Begum (1527), Bulleh Shah (1680), and Nawaz Sharif (1949). After him are Krishna Sobti (1925), Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), Lokaksema (147), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Raja Dahir (663), and Tariq Ali (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Rahman Baba ranks 6. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), and Bulleh Shah (1680). After him are Krishna Sobti (1925), Tariq Ali (1943), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690).

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