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Abdullah Yusuf Ali

1872 - 1953

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Abdullah Yusuf Ali (; 14 April 1872 – 10 December 1953) was an Indian-British barrister who wrote a number of books about Islam, including an exegesis of the Qur'an. A supporter of the British war effort during World War I, Ali received the CBE in 1917 for his services to that cause. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdullah Yusuf Ali has received more than 613,648 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Abdullah Yusuf Ali is the 5,816th most popular writer (down from 5,312th in 2019), the 756th most popular biography from India (down from 641st in 2019) and the 109th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 52.23

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 5,816 out of 7,302. Before him are John Masefield, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sarah Orne Jewett, Arantxa Urretabizkaia, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. After him are Vítězslav Hálek, Vigdis Hjorth, Thomas Linacre, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, Fatos Arapi, and Miho Mosulishvili.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 178. Before him are Lucille La Verne, Bernard Knubel, Octav Băncilă, William Desmond Taylor, Dimitrios Drivas, and Anna Held. After him are Joseph Barcroft, Rudolf Schlechter, Sidney Olcott, James Young, Horace Rice, and Siegfried Flesch. Among people deceased in 1953, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 175. Before him are Georg Zacharias, Albert Coates, Maud Gonne, Florence Price, Maurice Vignerot, and Herbert E. Ives. After him are Annie Kenney, Fred M. Vinson, Paul Niggli, Luis Alberto Riart, Henri Padé, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 756 out of 1,861. Before him are John Shepherd-Barron (1925), Sumitra Mahajan (1943), Nambi Narayanan (1941), A. R. Rahman (1966), Kirron Kher (1955), and Satish Kumar (1936). After him are Sunil Gavaskar (1949), Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Raj Reddy (1937), Reita Faria (1943), and Chandramukhi Basu (1860).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 109. Before him are Roshanara Begum (1617), Shrilal Shukla (1925), Anita Desai (1937), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Javed Akhtar (1945), and Nambi Narayanan (1941). After him are Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907), Ruskin Bond (1934), Gurdial Singh (1933), Bano Qudsia (1928), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), and Vikram Seth (1952).

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