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Ahmad Khani

1650 - 1707

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Ehmedê Xanî (also Ahmad-e Khani, Kurdo-Arabic script: ئەحمەدێ خانی) was a Kurdish intellectual, scholar, mystic and poet who is viewed by some as the founder of Kurdish nationalism. He was born in the Hakkâri region in 1650 and died in Bayazid in 1707. Xanî's most important work is Mem and Zin, a long romantic epic which is sometimes viewed as the Kurdish national epic. It is the most famous work of Kurdish literature among both Kurds and non-Kurds. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmad Khani is the 1,126th most popular writer (down from 821st in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 335th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Turkish Writer.

Ahmad Khatami is a former Iranian cleric who served as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1997 to 2005.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmad Khani ranks 1,126 out of 7,302. Before him are Aleksis Kivi, Arnold Zweig, Tannhäuser, Diana Wynne Jones, Chinua Achebe, and Jorge Semprún. After him are Ibn al-Jawzi, Will Durant, Leonid Andreyev, Sugawara no Michizane, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, and Walter Lippmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1650, Ahmad Khani ranks 5. Before him are William III of England, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Thomas Savery, and Tituba. After him are Jean Bart, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Frederick Casimir Kettler, Anne Jules de Noailles, Vincenzo Coronelli, Joachim Neander, and Robert de Visée. Among people deceased in 1707, Ahmad Khani ranks 8. Before him are Aurangzeb, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, Muhammad Azam Shah, Shitao, and Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden. After him are Jean Mabillon, Christoph Cellarius, Johann Ernst III, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Willem van de Velde the Younger, Johann Patkul, and Johann Christoph Denner.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Ahmad Khani ranks 431 out of 1,347. Before him are Publilius Syrus (-100), Qara Yusuf (1357), Vardan Mamikonian (388), Rhesus of Thrace (null), Philip I, Latin Emperor (1243), and Şehzade Mehmed (1605). After him are Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus (130), Maria Laskarina (1206), Tryphon, Respicius, and Nympha (null), Osman Nuri Pasha (1832), Nicomedes IV of Bithynia (-200), and Zoe Karbonopsina (900).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Ahmad Khani ranks 30. Before him are Aristophanes of Byzantium (-257), George of Pisidia (580), Aziz Nesin (1915), John Malalas (491), Mimnermus (-670), and Publilius Syrus (-100). After him are Symeon the New Theologian (949), John Tzetzes (1110), Alcman (-611), Yeghishe Charents (1897), Hieronymus of Cardia (-390), and Aelius Aristides (117).

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