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Ahmad Kasravi

1890 - 1946

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Ahmad Hokmabadi Tabrizi (Persian: سید احمد حکم‌آبادی تبریزی, romanized: Ahmad-e Hokmabadi-ye Tabrizi;‎ 29 September 1890 – 11 March 1946), later known as Ahmad Kasravi, was a pre-eminent Iranian historian, jurist, linguist, theologian, a staunch secularist and intellectual. He was a professor of law at the University of Tehran, as well as an attorney and judge in Tehran, Iran. Born in Hokmavar (Hokmabad), Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azerbaijani. During his early years, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmad Kasravi is the 272nd most popular historian (down from 221st in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Iran (down from 268th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iranian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 272 out of 561. Before him are Frederick Jackson Turner, Festus, Elishe, André Clot, A. H. M. Jones, and Maxime Rodinson. After him are Yitzhak Arad, Jerónimo Zurita y Castro, Karl Otfried Müller, John Foxe, Gustav Hugo, and Bernard Berenson.

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Among people born in 1890, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 137. Before him are Sigurd Hoel, Alexander Granach, Jean Rhys, Walter Hasenclever, Olga Desmond, and Mário de Sá-Carneiro. After him are E. E. Smith, Oswald de Andrade, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, Jan de Vries, Mauno Pekkala, and Karl Freund. Among people deceased in 1946, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 121. Before him are Jenny Nyström, Dion Fortune, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Pantelis Karasevdas, and Cesare Orsenigo. After him are Paul Lincke, Alexey Sudayev, Erwin Rösener, François de La Rocque, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, and Camillo Caccia Dominioni.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 287 out of 631. Before him are Mostafa Chamran (1932), Imad al-Dawla (892), Reza Hosseini Nassab (1960), Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), Ahmad Qavam (1876), and Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948). After him are Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1966), Al-Nayrizi (865), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), and Majid Majidi (1959).

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Among HISTORIANS In Iran

Among historians born in Iran, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 4. Before him are Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897), Ibn al-Faqih (null), and Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500). After him are Hafiz-i Abru (null), Ehsan Yarshater (1920), and Firishta (1560).

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