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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 and is regarded as one of the best Quran reciters to ever live. He had won three world Qira'at competitions in the early 1970s. ‘Abdus-Samad was one of the first huffaz to make commercial recordings of his recitations and the first president of the Reciters' Union in Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad has received more than 1,083,536 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad is the 90th most popular social activist (up from 112th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Egypt (up from 176th 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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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ranks 90 out of 538. Before him are Bugsy Siegel, Sakamoto Ryōma, Gerald Durrell, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Amílcar Cabral, and Errico Malatesta. After him are Fra Dolcino, Augusto César Sandino, Antipope Clement III, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Marinus van der Lubbe, and René Cassin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ranks 37. Before him are Robert Hossein, Manfred Eigen, Harry Belafonte, Emmanuelle Riva, Angelo Sodano, and Mary Higgins Clark. After him are K. Alex Müller, Hugo Pratt, Stan Getz, Gilbert Bécaud, Ibrahim Ferrer, and Rosalynn Carter. Among people deceased in 1988, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ranks 17. Before him are Nikolaas Tinbergen, Chiang Ching-kuo, Kim Philby, Roy Orbison, Raymond Carver, and Juan Pujol García. After him are Virginia Satir, Gert Fröbe, Felix Wankel, John Holmes, Clifford D. Simak, and Luis Barragán.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad ranks 141 out of 582. Before him are Sanakht (-2700), Ramesses IX (-1150), Meritamen (-1400), Neferefre (-2500), Claude François (1939), and Mentuhotep III (-2050). After him are Hemiunu (-2500), Arsinoe III of Egypt (-246), Mentuhotep I (-2200), Intef I (-2200), Ptolemy Keraunos (-318), and Ptolemy XI Alexander II (-100).

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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), Sarah Hegazi (1989), Asmaa Mahfouz (1985), and Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (1991).

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