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Abdul Rasul Sayyaf

1946 - Today

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Abdulrab Rasul Sayyaf ( ahb-DOOL ra-b rə-SOOL sy-YAHF; Pashto: عبدالرب رسول سیف; born 1946) is an exiled Afghan politician and former mujahideen commander. He took part in the war against the Marxist–Leninist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government in the 1980s, leading the Afghan mujahideen faction Ittehad-al-Islami (Islamic Union). Compared to other Afghan mujahideen leaders, Sayyaf was closely tied with international mujahideen from the Arab world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf has received more than 287,303 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Abdul Rasul Sayyaf is the 14,215th most popular politician (down from 12,065th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 91st in 2019) and the 79th most popular Afghan Politician.

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  • 16

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  • 3.49

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  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf ranks 14,215 out of 19,576. Before him are Gopinath Bordoloi, Juan Bautista Pérez, Ernest Bai Koroma, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Gerrard Winstanley, and Sergei Sidorsky. After him are Otto, Duke of Lorraine, Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, John Armstrong Jr., Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, and Elisabeth Eleonore of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf ranks 476. Before him are Colette Besson, Carol Dweck, Randal Kleiser, Andy Bown, Paavo Väyrynen, and Charles Bolden. After him are Blair Brown, Gilda Radner, Zinaida Turchyna, Maureen Starkey Tigrett, Jasna Diklić, and Suze Randall.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf ranks 114 out of 177. Before him are Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193), Hussain Hotak (null), Mohammed Fahim (1957), Abdul Aziz Hotak (1700), Antimachus I (-200), and Sima Samar (1957). After him are Ayub Shah Durrani (1800), Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī (1413), Apollodotus I (-300), Malalai of Maiwand (1861), Abdul Kabir (1958), and Anahita Ratebzad (1931).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf ranks 79. Before him are Sultan Ali Keshtmand (1935), Hussain Hotak (null), Mohammed Fahim (1957), Abdul Aziz Hotak (1700), Antimachus I (-200), and Sima Samar (1957). After him are Ayub Shah Durrani (1800), Apollodotus I (-300), Abdul Kabir (1958), Anahita Ratebzad (1931), Ahmad Zia Massoud (1956), and Mahmud Shah Durrani (1769).

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