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The Most Famous

RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Turkmenistan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 2,238 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Turkmenistan. This makes Turkmenistan the birth place of the 107th most number of Religious Figures behind Puerto Rico and Qatar.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkmen Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Turkmen Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Al-Nasa'i (829 - 915)

With an HPI of 62.66, Al-Nasa'i is the most famous Turkmen Religious Figure.  His biography has been translated into 28 different languages on wikipedia.

Al-Nasāʾī (214 – 303 AH; c. 829 – 915 CE), full name Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAlī ibn Sinān ibn Baḥr ibn Dīnar al-Khurasānī al-Nasāʾī, was a noted collector of hadith (sayings of Muhammad), from the city of Nasa (early Khorasan and present day Turkmenistan), and the author of "As-Sunan", one of the six canonical hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims. From his "As-Sunan al-Kubra (The Large Sunan)" he wrote an abridged version, "Al-Mujtaba" or Sunan al-Sughra (The Concise Sunan). Of the fifteen books he is known to have written, six treat the science of hadīth.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as religious figures born between 829 and 829. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased religious figures include Al-Nasa'i.

Deceased Religious Figures

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