Idries Shah

Idries Shah - Afghan Sufi teacher (1924-1996). Article “Idries Shah” in German Wikipedia has 27.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Idries Shah”, its content was written by 28 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 746 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 14 times in German Wikipedia and cited 775 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #12866 in July 2005
• Global: #7452 in March 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #210804 in May 2008
• Global: #192712 in November 2013

There are 21 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 July 1, 2025 (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	English (en) Idries Shah		98.7567
2	Greek (el) Ίντρις Σαχ		91.1111
3	Finnish (fi) Idries Shah		88
4	Hebrew (he) אידריס שאה		87.6923
5	Swedish (sv) Idries Shah		86.6667
6	Romanian (ro) Idries Shah		85.4574
7	French (fr) Idries Shah		85.2632
8	Russian (ru) Шах, Идрис		84.7692
9	Spanish (es) Idries Shah		84.5115
10	Italian (it) Idries Shah		84.2105

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Idries Shah		821 516
2	Russian (ru) Шах, Идрис		117 975
3	French (fr) Idries Shah		114 420
4	Spanish (es) Idries Shah		76 815
5	German (de) Idries Shah		43 071
6	Turkish (tr) İdris Şah		34 253
7	Italian (it) Idries Shah		31 316
8	Portuguese (pt) Idries Shah		31 049
9	Arabic (ar) إدريس شاه		16 897
10	Persian (fa) ادریس شاه		13 777

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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 "Idries Shah" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Idries Shah		4 284
2	Russian (ru) Шах, Идрис		584
3	French (fr) Idries Shah		415
4	Portuguese (pt) Idries Shah		339
5	Spanish (es) Idries Shah		245
6	Turkish (tr) İdris Şah		194
7	German (de) Idries Shah		111
8	Italian (it) Idries Shah		85
9	Arabic (ar) إدريس شاه		65
10	Persian (fa) ادریس شاه		50

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Idries Shah		234
2	French (fr) Idries Shah		75
3	Spanish (es) Idries Shah		56
4	Italian (it) Idries Shah		54
5	Russian (ru) Шах, Идрис		49
6	Turkish (tr) İdris Şah		36
7	Hebrew (he) אידריס שאה		30
8	German (de) Idries Shah		28
9	Dutch (nl) Idries Shah		28
10	Swedish (sv) Idries Shah		26

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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 "Idries Shah" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Idries Shah		4
2	French (fr) Idries Shah		2
3	Ukrainian (uk) Ідріс Шах		2
4	Hindi (hi) इदरीस शाह		1
5	Italian (it) Idries Shah		1
6	Turkish (tr) İdris Şah		1
7	Arabic (ar) إدريس شاه		0
8	Czech (cs) Idries Shah		0
9	German (de) Idries Shah		0
10	Greek (el) Ίντρις Σαχ		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 "Idries Shah" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Idries Shah		194
2	French (fr) Idries Shah		173
3	Persian (fa) ادریس شاه		153
4	Swedish (sv) Idries Shah		58
5	Portuguese (pt) Idries Shah		53
6	Italian (it) Idries Shah		22
7	Russian (ru) Шах, Идрис		20
8	Spanish (es) Idries Shah		19
9	Hebrew (he) אידריס שאה		16
10	German (de) Idries Shah		14

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إدريس شاه
cs	Czech Idries Shah
de	German Idries Shah
el	Greek Ίντρις Σαχ
en	English Idries Shah
eo	Esperanto Idries Ŝah
es	Spanish Idries Shah
fa	Persian ادریس شاه
fi	Finnish Idries Shah
fr	French Idries Shah
he	Hebrew אידריס שאה
hi	Hindi इदरीस शाह
it	Italian Idries Shah
nl	Dutch Idries Shah
pl	Polish Idries Shah
pt	Portuguese Idries Shah
ro	Romanian Idries Shah
ru	Russian Шах, Идрис
sv	Swedish Idries Shah
tr	Turkish İdris Şah
uk	Ukrainian Ідріс Шах

Best Rank

German: #210804 05.2008

Global: #192712 11.2013

Best Rank

German: #12866 07.2005

Global: #7452 03.2015

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