# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-a-r-barker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:39:00.351Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/m-a-r-barker"
name: "M. A. R. Barker"
slug: "m-a-r-barker"
description: "Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker was an American linguist who was professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies and created one of the first roleplaying games, Empire of the Petal Throne. He wrote several fantasy/science fantasy novels based in his associated world setting of Tékumel."
tagline: "Linguist, scholar, author and game designer (1929–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/M._A._R._Barker_%281929%E2%80%932012%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-11-03"
deathDate: "2012-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.11
  momentum:             0.353460972017673
  historical:           9.917282666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "محمد عبد الرحمن باركر"
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    title: "ام. اى. آر. باركر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Muhammad Abd-Al-Rahman Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "M. A. R. Barker"
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    title: "M. A. R. Barker"
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    title: "M. A. R. Barker"
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    title: "M.A.R. Barker"
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    title: "عبد الرحمن بارکر"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump