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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 Pashtun 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 to be one of 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 307,292 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Rahman Baba is the 3,022nd most popular writer (down from 2,491st in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 36th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rahman Baba ranks 3,022 out of 5,755. Before him are Juan Pablo Bonet, Howard Pyle, María Kodama, James Rollins, Fanny Crosby, and Victor Segalen. After him are Josef Jungmann, Gu Yanwu, Marie-Claire Blais, Robert M. Pirsig, Boris Pilnyak, and Robert de Nola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1632, Rahman Baba ranks 15. Before him are Jean Mabillon, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, Michael I Apafi, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Feodosia Morozova, and Giovanni Battista Vitali. After him are Louis Bourdaloue, Francesco Provenzale, and Tylman van Gameren. Among people deceased in 1706, Rahman Baba ranks 9. Before him are Peter II of Portugal, 6th Dalai Lama, Andreas Werckmeister, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Arsenije III Čarnojević, and Ferdinand de Marsin. After him are John Evelyn, Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin, Georg Joseph Kamel, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Tylman van Gameren, and Jeanne Dumée.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Rahman Baba ranks 45 out of 180. Before him are Amrita Pritam (1919), Taxiles (-400), Milkha Singh (1935), Yahya Khan (1914), Krishna Sobti (1925), and Lokaksema (147). After him are I. K. Gujral (1919), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Francis Younghusband (1863), Raja Dahir (663), Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), and Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915).

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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 Krishna Sobti (1925). After him are Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Tariq Ali (1943), Khushwant Singh (1915), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Parveen Shakir (1952).

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