RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Abu Hanifa

698 - 767

Abu Hanifa

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Hanifa has received more than 2,452,168 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Abu Hanifa is the 34th most popular religious figure (up from 59th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 6th in 2019) and the 3rd 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.

Memorability Metrics

2.5M
Page Views (PV)
80.48
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
73
Languages Editions (L)
11.10
Effective Languages (L*)
2.93
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Abu Hanifa ranks 34 out of 3,187. Before him are Abu Bakr, Zoroaster, Saint Stephen, Saint Barbara, Sarah, and Husayn ibn Ali. After him are Martin of Tours, Jonah, Ruhollah Khomeini, Pope John Paul I, Mark the Evangelist, and Queen of Sheba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 698, Abu Hanifa ranks 1. After him are Dagobert III, Abe no Nakamaro, and Wang Changling. Among people deceased in 767, Abu Hanifa ranks 1. After him are Pope Paul I, Ibn Ishaq, and Toktu of Bulgaria.