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Khvandamir

1475 - 1534

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Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad, commonly known as Khvandamir (Persian: غیاث‌الدین خواندمیر, also spelled Khwandamir; 1475/6 – 1535/6) was a Persian historian who was active in the Timurid, Safavid and Mughal empires. He is principally known for his Persian universal history, the Habib al-siyar (The beloved of careers), which was regarded by both the Safavids and Mughals as their first official court account. Another notable work by Khvandamir is the Qanun-i Humayuni (The regulations of Humayun), a biography of the Mughal emperor Humayun (r. 1530–1540, 1555–1556), which contains important information regarding the early Mughal symbolism of rulership. Khvandamir is buried near the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya (died 1325) in Delhi, India. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Khvandamir is the 223rd most popular historian (down from 185th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 70th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Afghan Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Khvandamir ranks 223 out of 561. Before him are Deborah Lipstadt, Annius of Viterbo, Gerardus Vossius, H. J. R. Murray, Saul Friedländer, and Fritz Fischer. After him are Aban ibn Uthman, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Joseph de Guignes, Constantine Lascaris, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, and İbrahim Peçevi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1475, Khvandamir ranks 17. Before him are Anne of York, Afonso, Prince of Portugal, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Maximus the Greek, Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, and Pierre Gringore. After him are Marcantonio Trivisan, Jörg Breu the Elder, Jan Mostaert, and Thomas Murner. Among people deceased in 1534, Khvandamir ranks 14. Before him are Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Stephen VIII Báthory, Otto Brunfels, Barbara Jagiellon, Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, and Johannes Aventinus. After him are Magdalena of Saxony, and Beatriz Galindo.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Khvandamir ranks 88 out of 177. Before him are Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), Abdullah Abdullah (1960), Muhammad of Ghazni (998), Abdul Qadir (1944), Suhaila Siddiq (1938), and Eucratides I (-170). After him are Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1959), Unsuri (980), Demetrius I of Bactria (-300), Agathokleia (-200), Humaira Begum (1918), and Abdul Ali Mazari (1946).

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Among HISTORIANS In Afghanistan

Among historians born in Afghanistan, Khvandamir ranks 4. Before him are Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193), Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī (1413), and Ibn Hibban (883).

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