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Baba Tahir

947 - 1032

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Baba Tahir or Baba Taher Oryan Hamadani (Persian: باباطاهر عریان همدانی) was an 11th-century dervish poet from Hamadan, Iran who lived during the reign of Tugril of the Seljuk dynasty over Iran. This is almost all that is known of him as he lived a mysterious lifestyle. Although the prefix "Baba" (roughly meaning 'The Wise' or 'The Respected') has been thought as part of his name in all known sources, his nickname "Oryan" (meaning 'The Naked') did not appear until about 17th century. It is likely that the nickname was attributed to him because he seemed to lead a very spiritual and stoic lifestyle and thus was figuratively not clothed with worldly and material needs and suggests he may have been a wandering dervish. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Baba Tahir is the 1,763rd most popular writer (down from 1,649th in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from Iran (down from 192nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Iranian Writer.

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Among writers, Baba Tahir ranks 1,763 out of 7,302. Before him are Mór Jókai, Adalberon, Antonio Skármeta, Nora Ephron, Minna Canth, and Silvina Ocampo. After him are Shūsaku Endō, Junji Ito, Dominique Venner, Marie Under, R. L. Stine, and Aphra Behn.

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Among people born in 947, Baba Tahir ranks 4. Before him are Rajaraja I, Al-Qadir, and Adalberon. After him is Ce Acatl Topiltzin. Among people deceased in 1032, Baba Tahir ranks 4. Before him are Pope John XIX, Constance of Arles, and Rudolph III of Burgundy. After him are Constantine Diogenes, Bezprym, Arslan Isra'il, Otto Orseolo, and Pietro Barbolano.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Baba Tahir ranks 200 out of 631. Before him are Simko Shikak (1887), Quli Qutb Shah (1470), Mithridates IV of Parthia (null), Googoosh (1950), Orodes III of Parthia (-100), and Amastrine (-400). After him are Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (864), Barbet Schroeder (1941), 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi (930), Aga Khan II (1830), Mandane of Media (-584), and Reza Abbasi (1565).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Baba Tahir ranks 20. Before him are Ali Shariati (1933), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), and Forough Farrokhzad (1935). After him are Azar Nafisi (1955), Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), Asadi Tusi (999), Daqiqi (1000), and Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967).

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