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Shah Jahan

1592 - 1666

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Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I (Persian pronunciation: [ʃɑːh d͡ʒa.ˈhɑːn]; lit. 'King of the World'), was the fifth Mughal Emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658. During his reign, the Mughals reached the peak of their architectural and cultural achievements. The third son of Jahangir (r. 1605–1627), Shah Jahan participated in the military campaigns against the Sisodia Rajputs of Mewar and the rebel Lodi nobles of the Deccan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shah Jahan has received more than 10,874,338 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Shah Jahan is the 454th most popular politician (up from 586th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Pakistan and the 2nd most popular Pakistani Politician.

Shah Jahan was the emperor of the Mughal Empire from 1628-1658. He is most famous for building the Taj Mahal in Agra, India.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.88

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 89

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Shah Jahans by language

Over the past year Shah Jahan has had the most page views in the with 1,689,196 views, followed by Hindi (180,204), and Persian (66,287). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hausa (379.66%), Kurdish (Sorani) (372.25%), and Tajik (302.49%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shah Jahan ranks 454 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis X of France, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Otho, Radovan Karadžić, Louis Bonaparte, and Mustafa III. After him are Alaric I, Giuseppe Mazzini, Lothair I, José Mujica, Lavrentiy Beria, and Mahidevran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1592, Shah Jahan ranks 2. Before him is John Amos Comenius. After him are Hong Taiji, Pierre Gassendi, Wilhelm Schickard, Gerard van Honthorst, Jacques Callot, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Catalina de Erauso, Peter Snayers, and Saib Tabrizi. Among people deceased in 1666, Shah Jahan ranks 3. Before him are Anne of Austria, and Frans Hals. After him are Abbas II of Persia, François Mansart, Guercino, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Senhime, Luisa de Guzmán, and Isabella d'Este, Duchess of Parma.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Shah Jahan ranks 2 out of 217. Before him are Akbar (1542). After him are Chanakya (-375), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Guru Nanak (1469), Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Pāṇini (-500), Bhagat Singh (1907), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Vasubandhu (400), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), and Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876).

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Among POLITICIANS In Pakistan

Among politicians born in Pakistan, Shah Jahan ranks 2. Before him are Akbar (1542). After him are Shehbaz Sharif (1951), Benazir Bhutto (1953), Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876), Porus (-400), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Ranjit Singh (1780), Aga Khan III (1877), Imran Khan (1952), Manmohan Singh (1932), and Gulzarilal Nanda (1898).

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