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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Abu Hanifa

698 - 767

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Abu Hanifa (Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized: Abū Ḥanīfa; September 699–767) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which remains the most widely practiced to this day. His school predominates in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran (until the sixteenth century), Turkey, the Balkans, Russia, Circassia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, and some parts of the Arab world.Born to a Muslim family in Kufa, Abu Hanifa traveled to the Hejaz region of Arabia in his youth, where he studied in the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He was named by al-Dhahabi as "one of the geniuses of the sons of Adam" who "combined jurisprudence, worship, scrupulousness, and generosity".As his career as a jurist and theologian progressed, he became known for favoring the use of reason in his jurisprudential rulings, and even in his theology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Hanifa has received more than 2,283,307 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Abu Hanifa is the 61st most popular religious figure (up from 65th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 7th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.

Abu Hanifa is most famous for being the founder of the Hanafi school of law, one of the four schools of Sunni Islam.

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  • 64

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  • 9.68

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  • 2.94

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Abu Hanifa ranks 61 out of 2,238Before him are Jerome, Anthony the Great, Anthony of Padua, Pope Clement VII, Luke the Evangelist, and Benedict of Nursia. After him are Hildegard of Bingen, Pope Alexander VI, Thomas the Apostle, Daniel, Pope Pius XI, and Saint Valentine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 698, Abu Hanifa ranks 1After him are Dagobert III and Wang Changling. Among people deceased in 767, Abu Hanifa ranks 1After him are Pope Paul I, Ibn Ishaq, and Toktu of Bulgaria.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Abu Hanifa ranks 6 out of 338Before him are Abraham (-1813), Saladin (1138), Hammurabi (-1810), Saddam Hussein (1937), and Nebuchadnezzar II (-630). After him are Ashurbanipal (-685), Sargon of Akkad (-2300), Sarah (-1803), Al-Kindi (801), Ibn al-Haytham (965), and Mani (216).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iraq

Among religious figures born in Iraq, Abu Hanifa ranks 2Before him are Abraham (-1813). After him are Sarah (-1803), Mani (216), Rabia of Basra (710), Ezra (-500), Belshazzar (-600), Idris (-3500), Muhammad al-Mahdi (869), Eber (-2038), Ibn Hisham (701), and Junayd of Baghdad (830).