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Saadi Shirazi

1210 - 1291

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Saadi Shīrāzī, better known by his pen name Saadi (; Persian: سعدی, romanized: , IPA: [sæʔˈdiː]), also known as Sadi of Shiraz (سعدی شیرازی, Saʿdī Shīrāzī; born 1210; died 1291 or 1292), was a Persian poet and prose writer of the medieval period. He is recognized for the quality of his writings and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts. Saadi is widely recognized as one of the greatest poets of the classical literary tradition, earning him the nickname "The Master of Speech" or "The Wordsmith" (استاد سخن ostâd-e soxan) or simply "Master" (استاد ostâd) among Persian scholars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saadi Shirazi has received more than 1,097,664 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Saadi Shirazi is the 298th most popular writer (down from 195th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Iranian Writer.

Saadi Shirazi is most famous for his work in the fields of poetry, literature, and philosophy.

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  • 76

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

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  • 6.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saadi Shirazi ranks 298 out of 5,755. Before him are Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Margaret Mitchell, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Lucan. After him are Fuzûlî, Heinrich von Kleist, Alberto Moravia, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Italo Calvino, and Marguerite de Navarre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1210, Saadi Shirazi ranks 3. Before him are Pope Honorius IV and Pope Gregory X. After him are Afonso III of Portugal, Birger Jarl, Treniota, Chaka of Bulgaria, Floris IV, Count of Holland, Muqi, Guan Hanqing, Toros Roslin, and Joan of England, Queen of Scotland. Among people deceased in 1291, Saadi Shirazi ranks 2. Before him is Rudolf I of Germany. After him are Arghun, Alfonso III of Aragon, Eleanor of Provence, Guillaume de Beaujeu, Solamish, and Talabuga.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Saadi Shirazi ranks 43 out of 528. Before him are Shapur I (150), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Shams Tabrizi (1185), Farah Pahlavi (1938), Bahá'u'lláh (1817), and Cambyses I (-600). After him are Astyages (-700), Abolhassan Banisadr (1933), Yazdegerd III (624), Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), Hassan Rouhani (1948), and Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Saadi Shirazi ranks 9. Before him are Abu Nuwas (762), Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), Ferdowsi (940), Doris Lessing (1919), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), and Shams Tabrizi (1185). After him are Jami (1414), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Ali Shariati (1933), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), and Forough Farrokhzad (1935).

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