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Rahman Baba

1632 - 1706

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Abdur Rahmān Momand (Pashto: عبدالرحمان بابا; c. 1632 – 1706) or Rahmān Bābā (Pashto: رحمان بابا), was a renowned Afghan Sufi Saint, member of Sufi Dervish and poet from Peshawar (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) during the Mughal era. He, along with his contemporary Khushal Khan Khattak, is considered among the most popular poets of the Pashto language. His poetry expresses the mystical side of Islam, in line with his Sufi-oriented nature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rahman Baba is the 2,641st most popular writer (down from 2,637th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rahman Baba ranks 2,641 out of 7,302. Before him are Cornelius Ryan, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Han Suyin, Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, Ramón Sampedro, and Maria Teresa Horta. After him are Andy Weir, Frigyes Karinthy, Petar Preradović, John of Ephesus, Antimachus, and Artur Lundkvist.

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Among people born in 1632, Rahman Baba ranks 15. Before him are Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Michael I Apafi, Francis Hyacinth, Duke of Savoy, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Adolf William, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach, and Giovanni Battista Vitali. After him are Feodosia Morozova, Phetracha, Louis Bourdaloue, Francesco Provenzale, and Tylman van Gameren. Among people deceased in 1706, Rahman Baba ranks 7. Before him are Johann Pachelbel, Pierre Bayle, Peter II of Portugal, 6th Dalai Lama, Georg Joseph Kamel, and Arsenije III Čarnojević. After him are Kimpa Vita, Andreas Werckmeister, Bernhard I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, John Evelyn, Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin, and Ferdinand de Marsin.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Rahman Baba ranks 57 out of 217. Before him are Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Shujaat Hussain (1946), Yahya Khan (1914), Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951), Lokaksema (147), and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690). After him are Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Dilip Kumar (1922), Nek Chand (1924), Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), Francis Younghusband (1863), and Lal Bokhari (1909).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Rahman Baba ranks 7. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690). After him are Tariq Ali (1943), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Bulleh Shah (1680), and Bhisham Sahni (1915).

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