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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei

1899 - 1992

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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei ( AH-boo al KAH-sim al KHOO-ee; Arabic: أبو القاسم الموسوي الخوئي; Persian: ابوالقاسم موسوی خویی; November 19, 1899 – August 8, 1992) was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja'. Al-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 294,406 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei is the 210th most popular social activist (down from 200th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Iran (down from 182nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iranian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 210 out of 538Before him are Wat Tyler, Sojourner Truth, Guillaume Cale, Luisa Cuesta, Bernard II, Duke of Saxony, and Hrant Dink. After him are Sergei Kovalev, Vandana Shiva, C. Rajagopalachari, Jacques Vergès, Huber Matos, and David Lane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 75Before him are Princess Margaretha of Sweden, Hayato Ikeda, Walter Lantz, Michał Kalecki, Adam Rainer, and Ida Kamińska. After him are Alma Reville, Pavel Haas, Irving Thalberg, Artur da Costa e Silva, Nikolay Voronov, and Akim Tamiroff. Among people deceased in 1992, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 68Before him are Väinö Linna, Nathan Milstein, Larbi Benbarek, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Nureddin al-Atassi, and Heinrich Eberbach. After him are Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Banine, Deng Yingchao, Jânio Quadros, Koča Popović, and Yang Kyoungjong.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 186 out of 528Before him are Táhirih (1817), Sinatruces of Parthia (-157), Mehdi Bazargan (1907), Phriapatius (-290), Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran (1960), and Arsaces II of Parthia (-300). After him are Ahmad ibn Rustah (null), Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952), Shutruk-Nakhunte (-1300), Al-Taftazani (1322), Mansour Bahrami (1956), and Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (933).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Iran

Among social activists born in Iran, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 4Before him are Shirin Ebadi (1947), Babak Khorramdin (798), and Musa al-Sadr (1928). After him are Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963), Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Mina Ahadi (1956), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Maryam Namazie (1966), Reyhaneh Jabbari (1988), Ruhollah Zam (1978), and Execution of Navid Afkari (1993).