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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ahmed Yassin

1937 - 2004

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Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل حسن ياسين; June 1936 – 22 March 2004) was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas, a militant Islamist and Palestinian nationalist organization in the Gaza Strip, in 1987. Yassin was born in Ashkelon, in Mandatory Palestine in 1929 or 1936. His family fled or were expelled during the 1948 Palestine War to Gaza City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Yassin has received more than 1,479,972 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Ahmed Yassin is the 508th most popular religious figure (down from 453rd in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Israel (down from 66th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Israeli Religious Figure.

Ahmed Yassin is most famous for being the founder and leader of Hamas, an Islamic terrorist organization.

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  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ahmed Yassin ranks 508 out of 2,238. Before him are Saint Spyridon, Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb, Haggai, Antipope Clement VII, Ansgar, and Pope Silverius. After him are Korah, Edward the Confessor, Peter the Hermit, Pope Stephen I, Pope Miltiades, and Pope Caius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Ahmed Yassin ranks 22. Before him are Vanessa Redgrave, Martti Ahtisaari, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Egon Krenz, and Mengistu Haile Mariam. After him are Warren Beatty, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Robert Coleman Richardson, Philip Glass, and Bruce McLaren. Among people deceased in 2004, Ahmed Yassin ranks 16. Before him are Françoise Sagan, Czesław Miłosz, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Susan Sontag, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Peter Ustinov. After him are Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Akhmad Kadyrov, Maurice Wilkins, Helmut Newton, and Janet Leigh.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Ahmed Yassin ranks 69 out of 430. Before him are William of Tyre (1130), Baldwin V of Jerusalem (1177), Ehud Barak (1942), Haggai (-550), Jehoiakim (-634), and Jeconiah (-700). After him are Amon of Judah (-660), Uzziah (-900), Annas (-22), Ehud Olmert (1945), Simeon (null), and Jehoash of Judah (-843).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Israel

Among religious figures born in Israel, Ahmed Yassin ranks 34. Before him are James, son of Alphaeus (-10), Barabbas (1), Micah (-737), Joel (-1), Nehemiah (-490), and Haggai (-550). After him are Annas (-22), Simeon (null), Rabbi Akiva (50), Penitent thief (-18), Pope Theodore I (600), and Nicodemus (-50).

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