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Subh-i-Azal

1831 - 1912

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Subh-i-Azal (1831–1912, born Mīrzā Yahyā Nūrī) was an Iranian religious leader and writer who was the second head of the Bābī movement after the execution of its founder, the Bāb, in 1850. He was named the leader of the movement after being the Bāb's chief deputy shortly before its execution, and became a generally-acknowledged head of the community after their expulsion to Baghdad in 1852. The Bāb believed Subh-i-Azal had an ability to write divinely-inspired verses and saw him as a mirror, providing the ability to explain the unexplained, in the time before the appearance of the messiah, known in the Bābī religion as He whom God shall make manifest (Arabic: من يظهره الله, romanized: man yuẓhiruhu llāh). However, not all Bābīs followed his authority, and some of them also made claims of their own, including those to the position of the messiah. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Subh-i-Azal is the 3,501st most popular writer (down from 3,069th in 2019), the 307th most popular biography from Iran (down from 286th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Iranian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Subh-i-Azal ranks 3,501 out of 7,302. Before him are Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, H.D., Alf Prøysen, Max Aub, Édouard Drumont, and Tariq Ali. After him are Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Enrique Vila-Matas, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Susan Brownmiller, Kir Bulychev, and Corippus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Subh-i-Azal ranks 67. Before him are Fatima Sheikh, Wojciech Gerson, Theodor Aman, George Pullman, José Evaristo Uriburu, and Alexandre Falguière. After him are Ebenezer Cobb Morley, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Jovan Ristić, Richard Norman Shaw, Wilhelm His Sr., and Alexander, Prince of Lippe. Among people deceased in 1912, Subh-i-Azal ranks 81. Before him are Theodor Gomperz, Paul Wallot, Anna Filosofova, Dmitry Milyutin, Ida Straus, and Bernardino Caballero. After him are Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Ferdinand Zirkel, Siri von Essen, Richard Norman Shaw, Lewis Boss, and Eduardo López de Romaña.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Subh-i-Azal ranks 307 out of 631. Before him are Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960), Behrouz Vossoughi (1938), Sadegh Khalkhali (1926), Samad Behrangi (1939), Nima Yooshij (1897), and Ahmad Shamlou (1925). After him are Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Sami Yusuf (1980), Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), Saib Tabrizi (1592), Dariush Mehrjui (1939), and Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (1945).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Subh-i-Azal ranks 39. Before him are Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Samad Behrangi (1939), Nima Yooshij (1897), and Ahmad Shamlou (1925). After him are Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Saib Tabrizi (1592), Simin Daneshvar (1921), Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923), Simin Behbahani (1927), and Ibn Bibi (1250).

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