# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mahmud-tarzi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:50:55.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mahmud-tarzi"
name: "Mahmud Tarzi"
slug: "mahmud-tarzi"
description: "Mahmud Tarzi was an Afghan politician and intellectual. He is known as the father of Afghan journalism. He became a key figure in the history of Afghanistan, following the lead of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey by working for modernization and secularization, and strongly opposing religious extremism and obscurantism. Tarzi emulated the Young Turks coalition."
tagline: "Afghan politician, secular activist and journalist (1865–1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mahmud_Tarzi_in_1920-cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1865-08-23"
deathDate: "1933-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8779855661836302
  historical:           16.71879466666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.mahmudtarzi.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump