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Abdullah Yusuf Azzam

1941 - 1989

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Abdullah Yusuf Azzam ((1941-11-14)14 November 1941 – (1989-11-24)24 November 1989) was a Palestinian jihadist and theologian. Belonging to the Salafi movement within Sunni Islam, he and his family fled from what had been the Jordanian-annexed West Bank after the 1967 Arab–Israeli War and pursued higher education in Jordan and Egypt before relocating to Saudi Arabia. In 1979, Azzam issued a fatwa advocating for "defensive jihad" in light of the outbreak of the Soviet–Afghan War, and subsequently moved to Pakistan to support the Afghan mujahideen.As a teacher and mentor to Saudi militant Osama bin Laden, he was one of the key figures who persuaded bin Laden to go to Afghanistan and personally oversee the mujahideen's efforts in that country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdullah Yusuf Azzam has received more than 772,749 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam is the 2,413th most popular politician (down from 1,722nd in 2019).

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam is most famous for being the mentor of Osama bin Laden and co-founder of the Muslim World League.

Memorability Metrics

  • 770k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Abdullah Yusuf Azzams by language

Over the past year Abdullah Yusuf Azzam has had the most page views in the with 113,165 views, followed by Arabic (92,719), and French (40,297). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (103.04%), Hebrew (95.73%), and Arabic (75.61%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam ranks 2,413 out of 19,576. Before him are Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Pepin I of Aquitaine, Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. After him are Empress Wanrong, Bronisław Komorowski, Mircea I of Wallachia, Juba I of Numidia, Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg, and Omar al-Bashir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam ranks 53. Before him are Art Garfunkel, Princess Muna al-Hussein, Nona Gaprindashvili, Hage Geingob, Riccardo Muti, and Ivan Gašparovič. After him are Pete Best, Jordi Savall, Dan Shechtman, Mircea Snegur, Gérson, and Viktor Zubkov. Among people deceased in 1989, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam ranks 35. Before him are Emilio Segrè, George Beadle, Daphne du Maurier, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Hicks, and Joris Ivens. After him are Hermann Oberth, Michel Aflaq, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Danilo Kiš, William Shockley, and John Cassavetes.

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