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PHILOSOPHER

Ahmad Sirhindi

1564 - 1624

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Aḥmad al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī (1564 – 1624/1625), known as Aḥmad ibn 'Abd al-Ahad al-Sirhindī (Arabic: أحمد بن عبد الأحد السرهندي, Imam Rabbani or Mujadid-e-Alf-e-Sani (Reviver of the Second Millennium), was an Indian Islamic scholar, Hanafi jurist, and member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order.He is regarded by Muslim historians as saving the Islamic communities in Mughal for his role in influencing Jahangir to turn away from the doctrines and reversing the policies of Jahangir father, Akbar, which deemed as heretical by consensus of Muslims in that era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad Sirhindi has received more than 840,804 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ahmad Sirhindi is the 474th most popular philosopher (up from 526th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from India (down from 148th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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  • 22

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  • 4.46

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  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ahmad Sirhindi ranks 474 out of 1,081Before him are Roger Scruton, Rodolphus Agricola, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Vittorino da Feltre, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Plutarch of Athens. After him are Zhiyi, Thomas Cajetan, Agrippa the Skeptic, Dong Zhongshu, Philodemus, and Karl Löwith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1564, Ahmad Sirhindi ranks 8Before him are William Shakespeare, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Christopher Marlowe, William Adams, Paulo Miki, and David Fabricius. After him are Francisco Pacheco, Hans Leo Hassler, Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Joos de Momper, Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Ferrara, and Federico Borromeo. Among people deceased in 1624, Ahmad Sirhindi ranks 4Before him are Jakob Böhme, Gaspard Bauhin, and Henry II, Duke of Lorraine. After him are Dirck van Baburen, Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw, Marco Antonio de Dominis, Ketevan the Martyr, Juan de Mariana, Sebastián Vizcaíno, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, and Francesco Contarini.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ahmad Sirhindi ranks 149 out of 1,493Before him are Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), Shantideva (685), Kittur Chennamma (1778), V. V. Giri (1894), and Green Boots (null). After him are B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Mahadevi Varma (1907), Mariam-uz-Zamani (1542), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Ravi Shankar (1956), and Lala Lajpat Rai (1865).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Ahmad Sirhindi ranks 24Before him are Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Buddhaghosa (401), Ravidas (1450), Madhvacharya (1199), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), and Shantideva (685). After him are Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), Chandrakirti (600), Narayana Guru (1855), Dignāga (480), and Eknath (1533).