PHILOSOPHER

Al-Ash'ari

873 - 936

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Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari (Arabic: أَبُو ٱلْحَسَن ٱلْأَشْعَرِيّ, romanized: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī; 874–936 CE) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist of the Shafi'i school, exegete, reformer, and scholastic theologian known for being the eponymous founder of the Ash'ari school of Islamic theology.Al-Ash'ari was notable for taking an intermediary position between the two diametrically opposed schools of Islamic theology prevalent at the time: Atharism and Mu'tazilism. He primarily opposed the Mu'tazili theologians who advocated the use of rationalism in theological debate and believed the Quran was created, as opposed to uncreated. On the other hand, the Hanbalis and traditionists were opposed to the use of philosophy or speculative theology, and condemned any theological debate altogether.Al-Ash'ari established a middle way between the doctrines of the aforementioned schools, based both on reliance on the sacred scriptures of Islam and theological rationalism concerning free will and attributes of God. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Ash'ari has received more than 178,279 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Al-Ash'ari is the 171st most popular philosopher (up from 203rd in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Iraq (up from 40th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iraqi Philosopher.

Al-Ash'ari is most famous for his belief that the Qur'an was created, not eternal.

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  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Al-Ash'aris by language

Over the past year Al-Ash'ari has had the most page views in the with 153,690 views, followed by Indonesian (55,605), and Malay (17,246). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bashkir (4,017.65%), Kurdish (Sorani) (114.00%), and Malay (53.27%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Al-Ash'ari ranks 171 out of 1,267. Before him are Jean Buridan, Jean Baudrillard, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Max Horkheimer, Cesare Beccaria, and Athanasius Kircher. After him are Mikhail Bakhtin, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Xun Kuang, Ernest Renan, Proclus, and Karl Kautsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 873, Al-Ash'ari ranks 1. After him are Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah, Al-Tabarani, and Ordoño II of León. Among people deceased in 936, Al-Ash'ari ranks 3. Before him are Henry the Fowler, and Pope John XI. After him are Rudolph of France, and Boso, Margrave of Tuscany.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Al-Ash'ari ranks 31 out of 384. Before him are Fuzûlî (1494), Al-Ma'mun (786), Muhammad al-Mahdi (869), Jalal Talabani (1933), Ismail al-Jazari (1136), and Belshazzar (-600). After him are Gudea (-2200), Möngke Khan (1209), Al-Mu'tasim (796), Ahmad ibn Fadlan (900), Enheduanna (-2300), and Eber (-2038).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iraq

Among philosophers born in Iraq, Al-Ash'ari ranks 2. Before him are Al-Kindi (801). After him are Al-Jahiz (775), Abu Yusuf (731), Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809), Diogenes of Babylon (-240), Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (1080), Abu Sulayman Sijistani (932), Ibn Abi'l-Hadid (1190), and Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863).

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