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Abdullah Yusuf Ali

1872 - 1953

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Abdullah Yusuf Ali (; Urdu: عبداللہ یوسف علی‎; 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 572,607 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Abdullah Yusuf Ali is the 5,331st most popular writer (down from 4,745th in 2019), the 645th most popular biography from India (down from 553rd in 2019) and the 94th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 5,331 out of 5,755. Before him are Vladimir Tendryakov, Katri Vala, Brad Falchuk, Judy Blume, Hugh Walpole, and Markus Zusak. After him are Elinor Glyn, R. M. Ballantyne, Peter Matthiessen, John Connolly, Remco Campert, and Colm Tóibín.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 159. Before him are William Desmond Taylor, Leonid Sobinov, Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano, Ivan Fomin, Julio Acosta García, and Feliciano Viera. After him are Joseph Rosemeyer, Joseph Barcroft, Dimitrios Drivas, Spyridon Chazapis, Siegfried Flesch, and Maurice Larrouy. Among people deceased in 1953, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 153. Before him are Maurice Vignerot, Josef Ternström, Auguste Giroux, Georg Zacharias, Henri Padé, and Francis Ford. After him are Arthur Berry, Luis Alberto Riart, Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg, Asaf Ali, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Robert Stangland.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 645 out of 1,493. Before him are Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Nana Patekar (1951), R. K. Laxman (1921), Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918), and Telesphore Toppo (1939). After him are Sam Manekshaw (1914), S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), Sheila Dikshit (1938), Spike Milligan (1918), Rambhadracharya (1950), and Godfrey Brown (1915).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Abdullah Yusuf Ali ranks 94. Before him are Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Cornelia Sorabji (1866), Amitav Ghosh (1956), Anita Desai (1937), Ismat Chughtai (1915), and Gurdial Singh (1933). After him are Pratibha Ray (1944), Javed Akhtar (1945), Kaifi Azmi (1919), Ruskin Bond (1934), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), and Fareed Zakaria (1964).

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