Shahnameh

Shahnameh - epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. This book is the 441^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 818^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article "Shahnameh" in English Wikipedia has 83.4 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 102 references and 30 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Persian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In July 2024 the article "Shahnameh" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Shahnameh", its content was written by 466 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2010 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Shahnameh is on the 818^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 441^st place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 1207 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6662 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3337 in March 2003
• Global: #2342 in December 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #42572 in March 2011
• Global: #16564 in February 2023

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Persian (fa) شاهنامه		94.5165
2	Indonesian (id) Syahnamah		86.9356
3	English (en) Shahnameh		83.4414
4	Italian (it) Shāh-Nāmeh		72.3139
5	Basque (eu) Xahname		69.4067
6	Hungarian (hu) Sáhnáme		66.9065
7	German (de) Schāhnāme		63.174
8	Catalan (ca) El Llibre dels Reis		62.1733
9	Romanian (ro) Șah-Namé		60.1282
10	Armenian (hy) Շահնամե		54.726

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shahnameh" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shahnameh		2 915 122
2	Persian (fa) شاهنامه		2 819 951
3	Russian (ru) Шахнаме		554 552
4	Turkish (tr) Şehnâme		534 042
5	German (de) Schāhnāme		306 515
6	Arabic (ar) الشاهنامه		281 892
7	French (fr) Livre des Rois (Ferdowsi)		244 484
8	Japanese (ja) シャー・ナーメ		191 301
9	Spanish (es) Shāhnāmé		141 058
10	Hindi (hi) शाहनामा		92 406

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shahnameh" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shahnameh		16 873
2	Persian (fa) شاهنامه		15 967
3	Russian (ru) Шахнаме		3 233
4	Turkish (tr) Şehnâme		2 886
5	Arabic (ar) الشاهنامه		1 350
6	German (de) Schāhnāme		1 333
7	French (fr) Livre des Rois (Ferdowsi)		1 037
8	Japanese (ja) シャー・ナーメ		971
9	Italian (it) Shāh-Nāmeh		887
10	Chinese (zh) 列王紀 (伊朗)		756

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Shahnameh" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shahnameh		466
2	Persian (fa) شاهنامه		280
3	German (de) Schāhnāme		161
4	French (fr) Livre des Rois (Ferdowsi)		117
5	Italian (it) Shāh-Nāmeh		80
6	Russian (ru) Шахнаме		79
7	Dutch (nl) Sjahnama		53
8	Turkish (tr) Şehnâme		49
9	Hungarian (hu) Sáhnáme		42
10	Hebrew (he) שאהנאמה		40

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Shahnameh" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Schāhnāme		2
2	Persian (fa) شاهنامه		2
3	English (en) Shahnameh		1
4	French (fr) Livre des Rois (Ferdowsi)		1
5	Hebrew (he) שאהנאמה		1
6	Korean (ko) 샤나메		1
7	Russian (ru) Шахнаме		1
8	Slovenian (sl) Šahname		1
9	Turkish (tr) Şehnâme		1
10	Arabic (ar) الشاهنامه		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Shahnameh" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Persian (fa) شاهنامه		1 638
2	English (en) Shahnameh		1 207
3	Russian (ru) Шахнаме		397
4	German (de) Schāhnāme		306
5	French (fr) Livre des Rois (Ferdowsi)		295
6	Swedish (sv) Shahnameh		245
7	Arabic (ar) الشاهنامه		202
8	Japanese (ja) シャー・ナーメ		190
9	Italian (it) Shāh-Nāmeh		180
10	Spanish (es) Shāhnāmé		148

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الشاهنامه
az	Azerbaijani Şahnamə
be	Belarusian Шах-намэ
bg	Bulgarian Шахнаме
ca	Catalan El Llibre dels Reis
cs	Czech Šáhnáme
da	Danish Kongebogen
de	German Schāhnāme
el	Greek Σαχναμέ
en	English Shahnameh
eo	Esperanto Ŝahnameo
es	Spanish Shāhnāmé
et	Estonian Shāhnāmeh
eu	Basque Xahname
fa	Persian شاهنامه
fi	Finnish Šahname
fr	French Livre des Rois (Ferdowsi)
gl	Galician Shahnameh
he	Hebrew שאהנאמה
hi	Hindi शाहनामा
hr	Croatian Šahname
hu	Hungarian Sáhnáme
hy	Armenian Շահնամե
id	Indonesian Syahnamah
it	Italian Shāh-Nāmeh
ja	Japanese シャー・ナーメ
ka	Georgian შაჰნამე
kk	Kazakh Шахнама
ko	Korean 샤나메
la	Latin Liber regum (Firdusius)
lt	Lithuanian Šachnamė
ms	Malay Shahnameh
nl	Dutch Sjahnama
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Den iranske kongeboka
no	Norwegian Shâhnâme
pl	Polish Szahname
pt	Portuguese Épica dos Reis
ro	Romanian Șah-Namé
ru	Russian Шахнаме
sh	Serbo-Croatian Šahname
simple	Simple English Shahnameh
sl	Slovenian Šahname
sr	Serbian Шахнаме
sv	Swedish Shahnameh
ta	Tamil சா நாமா
th	Thai ชอฮ์นอเม
tr	Turkish Şehnâme
uk	Ukrainian Шах-наме
ur	Urdu شاہنامہ
uz	Uzbek Shohnoma
vi	Vietnamese Shahnameh
zh	Chinese 列王紀 (伊朗)
zhminnan	Min Nan Shahnameh

Best Rank

English: #42572 03.2011

Global: #16564 02.2023

Best Rank

English: #3337 03.2003

Global: #2342 12.2012

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