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Unsuri

980 - 1039

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Abul Qasim Hasan Unsuri Balkhi (Persian: ابوالقاسم حسن عنصری بلخی; died 1039/1040) was a 10–11th century Persian poet. ‘Unṣurī is said to have been born in Balkh, today located in Afghanistan, and he eventually became a poet of the royal court of Mahmud of Ghazni, and was given the title Malik-us Shu'ara (King of Poets) under Sultan Maḥmūd of Ghazna. His Divan is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which only 2500 remain today. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Unsuri has received more than 40,410 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Unsuri is the 3,619th most popular writer (down from 3,064th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 68th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Afghan Writer.

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  • 40k

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  • 49.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Unsuri ranks 3,619 out of 5,755. Before him are Jan Wolkers, Yuri Rytkheu, Aleksey Pisemsky, Zofia Nałkowska, Connie Willis, and Mary Sidney. After him are Pierre Jean Jouve, Maurice Scève, Farag Foda, Alberto Hurtado, Kerstin Ekman, and Jules Barbier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 980, Unsuri ranks 19. Before him are Muhammad II of Córdoba, Emperor Ichijō, Izyaslav of Polotsk, Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, and Yahya of Antioch. After him is Farrukhi Sistani. Among people deceased in 1039, Unsuri ranks 7. Before him are Ibn al-Haytham, Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, Cunigunde of Luxembourg, Dirk III, Count of Holland, Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia, and Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Unsuri ranks 89 out of 145. Before him are Amrullah Saleh (1972), Gulbadan Begum (1523), Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Akhtar Mansour (1968), Ayub Khan (1857), and Ali Hujwiri (1009). After him are Farrukhi Sistani (980), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956), Malalai of Maiwand (1861), Abdul Qadir (1944), and Mahmud Tarzi (1865).

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Among WRITERS In Afghanistan

Among writers born in Afghanistan, Unsuri ranks 7. Before him are Rumi (1207), Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), Khaled Hosseini (1965), Sanai (1080), Rabia Balkhi (1000), and Gulbadan Begum (1523). After him are Farrukhi Sistani (980), Atiq Rahimi (1962), Nadia Anjuman (1981), Niloofar Rahmani (1992), and Fatima Bhutto (1982).

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