PHILOSOPHER

Ahmad al-Tayyeb

1946 - Today

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Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed El-Tayeb (Arabic: أحمد محمد أحمد الطيب; born 6 January 1946) is an Egyptian Islamic scholar and the current Grand Imam of al-Azhar, al-Azhar al-Sharif and former president of al-Azhar University. He was appointed by the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, following the death of Mohamed Sayed Tantawy in 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad al-Tayyeb has received more than 74,372 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ahmad al-Tayyeb is the 766th most popular philosopher (up from 781st in 2019), the 343rd most popular biography from Egypt (down from 334th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Egyptian Philosopher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 74k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ahmad al-Tayyeb ranks 766 out of 1,267. Before him are Henry of Ghent, Wang Fuzhi, Jean Vanier, Luigi Guido Grandi, Motoori Norinaga, and Vladimir Jankélévitch. After him are Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Paul de Lagarde, Sarada Devi, Metrodorus of Chios, Zacharias Rhetor, and Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Ahmad al-Tayyeb ranks 211. Before him are Jim Kelly, Sue Lyon, Cheech Marin, Ahmad Zahir, Renaud Camus, and Udo Lindenberg. After him are Duane Allman, Rita Marley, Patrick Head, Eugene Levy, Terence McKenna, and Jean-Luc Marion.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Ahmad al-Tayyeb ranks 343 out of 642. Before him are Abdulrahman Fawzi (1909), Zosimos of Panopolis (250), Iset (-1350), Nasr Abu Zayd (1943), Timocharis (-320), and Mariamne (-100). After him are Neferkaure (-2150), Albert Cossery (1913), Nebettawy (-1250), Hypsicles (-190), Antipope Dioscorus (500), and Moshé Mizrahi (1931).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Egypt

Among philosophers born in Egypt, Ahmad al-Tayyeb ranks 18. Before him are Valentinus (100), Ammonius Hermiae (440), Julius Pollux (200), Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (832), Syrianus (400), and Nasr Abu Zayd (1943). After him are Hermias (401), Isidore of Alexandria (450), Thrasyllus of Mendes (-100), and Leila Ahmed (1940).

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