SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad

1927 - 1988

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‘Abdul-Basit ‘Abdus-Samad (Arabic: عبـدُ الباسِـط مُحـمّـد عبـدُ ٱلصّـمـد), or Abdel Basit Abdel Samad, or Abdul Basit Muhammad Abdus Samad (1927 – 30 November 1988) was an Egyptian Quran reciter and Hafiz. He is part of a quadrumvirate, along with Siddiq Al-Minshawi, Mustafa Ismail, and Al-Hussary, which are considered to be the most important and famous Qurra of modern times to have an outsized impact on the Islamic World. He was the first president of the Reciter's union in Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad has received more than 1,152,332 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad is the 96th most popular social activist (down from 90th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 140th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Social Activist.

Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad was a poet in the time of the Mughal Empire. He is most famous for his ghazals, or love poems.

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  • 25

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  • 2.37

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ranks 96 out of 840. Before him are Marinus van der Lubbe, Thomas Cranmer, Jimmy Hoffa, Vasil Levski, Kim Hyong-jik, and Liu Xiaobo. After him are Anneliese Michel, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Zhang Jue, Annie Besant, and Louise Michel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ranks 38. Before him are John McCarthy, Rosalynn Carter, Raúl Alfonsín, Manfred Eigen, Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium, and Emmanuelle Riva. After him are Angelo Sodano, Robert Ludlum, Daniel Keyes, Hugo Pratt, Don Shirley, and Harry Mulisch. Among people deceased in 1988, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ranks 18. Before him are Roy Orbison, Klaus Fuchs, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Trevor Howard, André Frédéric Cournand, and Juan Pujol García. After him are Raymond Carver, John Holmes, Kim Philby, Tibor Sekelj, Felix Wankel, and Clifford D. Simak.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ranks 150 out of 642. Before him are Aybak (1197), Sa'id of Egypt (1822), Senenmut (-1600), Intef I (-2200), Nawal El Saadawi (1931), and Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (1923). After him are Apries (-650), Taha Hussein (1889), Theophylact Simocatta (580), Ptolemy X Alexander I (-140), Arsinoe IV of Egypt (-68), and Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Egypt

Among social activists born in Egypt, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ranks 2. Before him are Hassan al-Banna (1906). After him are Huda Sha'arawi (1879), Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872), Maggie Gobran (1949), Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (1991), Asmaa Mahfouz (1985), Sarah Hegazi (1989), and Nadeen Ashraf (1998).

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