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Magtymguly Pyragy

1733 - 1807

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Magtymguly Pyragy (Persian: مخدوم قلی فراغی Makhdumqoli Farāghi; Turkmen: Magtymguly Pyragy, IPA: [ˌmɑʁtɯmɢʊˈɫʊ ˌpɯɾɑːˈʁɯ]; c. 1724 – 1807), born Magtymguly, was an Iranian-Turkmen spiritual leader, philosophical poet, Sufi and traveller, who is considered the most famous figure in Turkmen literary history. Magtymguly is the greatest representative of Turkmen literature, credited with the creation of Turkmen written literature, and whose literary form became a powerful symbol of the historical and the incipient national consciousness of the Turkmen people. He is part of a unique period in the cultural history of Central Asia, with his exceptional talent projecting his personal poetic synthesis onto the next generation of poets of the region. The poems of the Turkmen poet have been translated into many languages of the world, including English, Russian, Kyrgyz, Romanian. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Magtymguly Pyragy is the 671st most popular writer (up from 808th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Iran (up from 113th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Iranian Writer.

Magtymguly Pyragy was most famous for being the first Kazakh poet to write in the Kazakh language. His poetry is often about the Kazakh steppe and the Kazakh people.

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Among writers, Magtymguly Pyragy ranks 671 out of 7,302. Before him are Carlos Fuentes, Curzio Malaparte, Luis de Góngora, Carlo Gozzi, Madame Roland, and A. A. Milne. After him are Premchand, Leo Africanus, Max Frisch, Bernard Gui, Longus, and Faxian.

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Among people born in 1733, Magtymguly Pyragy ranks 2. Before him is Joseph Priestley. After him are Christoph Martin Wieland, Victoire of France, Johan Zoffany, Carsten Niebuhr, George Read, Hubert Robert, Siraj ud-Daulah, Jean-Charles de Borda, Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, and Daniel Solander. Among people deceased in 1807, Magtymguly Pyragy ranks 4. Before him are Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Angelica Kauffman, and Jérôme Lalande. After him are Jeanne Baret, Henry Benedict Stuart, George Atwood, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, John Newton, and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Magtymguly Pyragy ranks 85 out of 631. Before him are Bayazid Bastami (804), Jamshīd al-Kāshī (1380), Mohammad Khatami (1943), Al-Hadi (764), Miskawayh (932), and Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah (873). After him are Ismail II (1533), Abbas II of Persia (1633), Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (1305), Barkiyaruq (1081), Mithridates I of Parthia (-195), and Yazdegerd I (400).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Magtymguly Pyragy ranks 12. Before him are Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Jami (1414), Shams Tabrizi (1185), Doris Lessing (1919), Saadi Shirazi (1210), and Attar of Nishapur (1145). After him are Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), Ali Shariati (1933), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), and Sadegh Hedayat (1903).

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