RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi

1856 - 1921

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Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (14 June 1856–28 October 1921), known reverentially as A'la Hazrat, was an Indian Islamic scholar and poet who is considered as the founder of the Barelvi movement. Born in Bareilly, British India, Khan wrote on law, religion, philosophy and the sciences, and because he mastered many subjects in both rational and religious sciences he has been called a polymath by Francis Robinson, a leading Western scholar of Islam in South Asia. He was a reviver who wrote extensively in defense of Muhammad and popular Sufi practices. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi has received more than 2,359,570 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi is the 977th most popular religious figure (up from 1,327th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from India (up from 232nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi ranks 977 out of 3,187. Before him are Fatimah bint Musa, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Nadezhda von Meck, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, Pietro Gasparri, and Melito of Sardis. After him are Amun-her-khepeshef, Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri, Henry of Latvia, Elon, and Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi ranks 32. Before him are H. Rider Haggard, Jean Moréas, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Mikhail Vrubel, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, and Stepa Stepanović. After him are Sergei Taneyev, Hara Takashi, Naftali Herz Imber, Henri-Edmond Cross, Maurice Sarrail, and Émile Picard. Among people deceased in 1921, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi ranks 33. Before him are Antoni Grabowski, Karl von Bülow, Subramania Bharati, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Živojin Mišić, and Hermann Schwarz. After him are Yan Fu, Robert de Montesquiou, Ivan Vazov, Georges Feydeau, Nikolay Gumilyov, and Hara Takashi.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi ranks 169 out of 1,861. Before him are Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), Vikramaditya (-102), Birsa Munda (1875), Mamnoon Hussain (1940), and Sivananda Saraswati (1887). After him are Kittur Chennamma (1778), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Shantideva (685), Abdul Karim (1863), and James Brooke (1803).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi ranks 16. Before him are Mahavatar Babaji (1900), Ravi Shankar (1956), Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918). After him are Guru Arjan (1563), Jayadeva (1170), Anthony de Mello (1931), George Alencherry (1945), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), and Guru Angad (1504).

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