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Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi

1500 - 1454

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Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi or Sharif al-Din Ali’ Yazdi (Persian: شرف الدین علی یزدی; died 1454, Yazd), also known by his pen name Sharaf, was a 15th-century Persian scholar who authored several works in the arts and sciences, including mathematics, astronomy, enigma, literature such as poetry, and history. The Zafarnama, a life of Timur, is his most famous work. Sharif al-Din was born in the city of Yazd, Iran in the 1370s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi has received more than 20,073 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi is the 165th most popular historian, the 226th most popular biography from Iran and the 3rd most popular Iranian Historian.

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  • 61.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi ranks 165 out of 561. Before him are Matthew of Edessa, Ibn al-Faqih, Arnold Toynbee, Hermann Abert, Ibn Wahshiyya, and E. P. Thompson. After him are Guibert of Nogent, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Edgar Quinet, Sozomen, Ernst Kantorowicz, and Karl Krumbacher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi ranks 31. Before him are Jan Mandijn, Fernão do Pó, Elizabeth Blount, Muhammad XIII of Granada, Nuno Gonçalves, and Tielman Susato. After him are Luis de Milán, Francisco de Bobadilla, Sebald Beham, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Nuno Tristão, and Jacob Hutter. Among people deceased in 1454, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi ranks 3. Before him are John II of Castile, and Esen Taishi.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi ranks 226 out of 631. Before him are Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (1919), Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Daqiqi (1000), Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (838), Ibn al-Faqih (null), and Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906). After him are Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Amir Kabir (1807), Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854), Masawaiyh (777), and Phraates I (-190).

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Among HISTORIANS In Iran

Among historians born in Iran, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi ranks 3. Before him are Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897), and Ibn al-Faqih (null). After him are Ahmad Kasravi (1890), Hafiz-i Abru (null), Ehsan Yarshater (1920), and Firishta (1560).

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