The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Azerbaijan
This page contains a list of the greatest Azerbaijani Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 3,187 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Azerbaijan. This makes Azerbaijan the birth place of the 109th most number of Religious Figures behind Turkmenistan, and Timor-Leste.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Azerbaijani Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Azerbaijani Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Shirali Muslimov (1805 - 1973)
With an HPI of 57.52, Shirali Muslimov is the most famous Azerbaijani Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Shirali Farzali oghlu Muslumov, also spelled as Muslimov (Azerbaijani: Şirəli Fərzəli oğlu Müslümov, pronounced [ʃiɾæˈli musˈlumov]; Russian: Ширали Фарзали оглы Муслимов; Talysh: Širali Farzali zoa Müslümov; allegedly March 26, 1805? – September 2, 1973) was an Azerbaijani shepherd of Talysh ethnicity from the village of Barzavu in the Lerik District of Azerbaijan, a mountainous area near the Iranian border. He claimed to be the oldest person who ever lived when he died on September 2, 1973, at the alleged age of 168. In 1966, the studio Azerbaijanfilm shot a documentary film about him, Shirali descended from the mountain.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Azerbaijani religious figures born between 1805 and 1805. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Azerbaijani religious figures include Shirali Muslimov.
