SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei

1899 - 1992

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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim Musawi Khoei ( AH-boo al KAH-sim KHOO-ee; (Persian: ابوالقاسم موسوی خویی; Arabic: أبو القاسم الموسوي الخوئي; November 19, 1899 – August 8, 1992) was an Iranian Shia marja'. Khoei is considered one of the most influential twelver scholars. After the death of Muhsin al-Hakim in 1970, he became the spiritual leader of much of the Shia world until his death in 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei has received more than 325,302 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei is the 206th most popular social activist (up from 210th in 2019), the 189th most popular biography from Iran (down from 186th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Iranian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 206 out of 840. Before him are Jacques Vergès, Serge Klarsfeld, Fred Phelps, Lucio Urtubia, Tiradentes, and Margaret Sanger. After him are Aliya Moldagulova, Gretl Braun, Khudiram Bose, Abba Kovner, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Christoph Probst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 76. Before him are Adam Rainer, Emma Morano, Marcel Achard, Raoul Salan, Artur da Costa e Silva, and Ernst-Robert Grawitz. After him are Hayato Ikeda, Irving Thalberg, Gustav Ucicky, Nikolay Voronov, Akim Tamiroff, and Michał Kalecki. Among people deceased in 1992, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 66. Before him are Koča Popović, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Judith Anderson, José Ferrer, and Jim Garrison. After him are Atahualpa Yupanqui, Allen Newell, Banine, Albert King, Väinö Linna, and Jânio Quadros.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 189 out of 631. Before him are Pacorus I (-63), Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892), Arsames (-550), Apama (-400), Al-Taftazani (1322), and Shahrokh Shah (1734). After him are Simko Shikak (1887), Baba Tahir (947), Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952), Ibn Khuzayma (838), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), and Táhirih (1817).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Iran

Among social activists born in Iran, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 5. Before him are Shirin Ebadi (1947), Babak Khorramdin (798), Narges Mohammadi (1972), and Musa al-Sadr (1928). After him are Massoud Rajavi (1948), Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963), Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Mina Ahadi (1956), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Maryam Namazie (1966), and Reyhaneh Jabbari (1988).

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