# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tamim-ansary
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:02:02.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tamim-ansary"
name: "Tamim Ansary"
slug: "tamim-ansary"
description: "Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. He is the author of Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, West of Kabul, East of New York, and other books concerning Afghan and Muslim history. He was previously a columnist for the encyclopedia website Encarta."
tagline: "Afghan-American author/public speaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tamim_Ansary_at_SF_Public_Library_10-15-08.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.234344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tamim_Ansary"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "تميم أنصاري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "تميم انصارى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamim_Ansary"
    title: "Tamim Ansary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamim_Ansary"
    title: "Tamim Ansary"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%83%80%EB%B0%88_%EC%95%88%EC%82%AC%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "타밈 안사리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BC_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%96"
    title: "Тамім Ансарі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A1%94%E7%B1%B3%E5%A7%86%C2%B7%E5%AE%89%E8%90%A8%E9%87%8C"
    title: "塔米姆·安萨里"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q914869"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump