RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Abdelhamid Ben Badis

1889 - 1940

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Abd al-Hamīd ibn Mustafa ibn Makki ibn Badis (Arabic: عبد الحميد بن مصطفى بن المكي بن باديس), better known as Ibn Badis (Arabic: بن باديس) was an Algerian Salafi educator, exegete, Islamic reformer, scholar and figurehead of cultural nationalism. In 1931, Ben Badis founded the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema, which was a national grouping of many Islamic scholars in Algeria from many different and sometimes opposing perspectives and viewpoints. The Association would have later a great influence on Algerian Muslim politics up to the Algerian War of Independence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdelhamid Ben Badis has received more than 363,436 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Abdelhamid Ben Badis is the 1,663rd most popular religious figure (down from 1,551st in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 71st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Algerian Religious Figure.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Abdelhamid Ben Badis ranks 1,663 out of 3,187. Before him are Pietro Riario, Frederick William Franz, Santos Abril y Castelló, Romanus of Caesarea, Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, and Josip Bozanić. After him are Eudokia of Heliopolis, Karl-Josef Rauber, Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, Jorge Medina, Samuel Wilson, and Ieronymos II of Athens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Abdelhamid Ben Badis ranks 110. Before him are Maria Bochkareva, Larry Semon, Tito Schipa, John B. Kelly Sr., Isak Samokovlija, and Bella Rosenfeld. After him are Richard Boleslawski, Warner Baxter, Joseph Laniel, Musidora, Charles Kay Ogden, and Lev Karakhan. Among people deceased in 1940, Abdelhamid Ben Badis ranks 77. Before him are Alfred Loisy, Gjergj Fishta, Robert Hichens, Oliver Lodge, Olga Boznańska, and John A. Hobson. After him are Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Cai Yuanpei, José Félix Estigarribia, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Giuseppe Motta, and Albert Kahn.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Abdelhamid Ben Badis ranks 75 out of 213. Before him are Mouloud Feraoun (1913), Sidi Boushaki (1394), Rabah Bitat (1925), Françoise Fabian (1933), Lalla Fatma N'Soumer (1830), and Messali Hadj (1898). After him are Évariste Lévi-Provençal (1894), Ahmed Ouyahia (1952), Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578), Abdelmalek Sellal (1948), Rachid Taha (1958), and Maximilian of Tebessa (274).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Algeria

Among religious figures born in Algeria, Abdelhamid Ben Badis ranks 4. Before him are Saint Monica (332), Ahmad al-Tijani (1735), and Sidi Boushaki (1394). After him are Maximilian of Tebessa (274), Optatus (400), and Jean-Marc Aveline (1958).

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