RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Al-Baqillani

950 - 1013

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Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Bāqillānī (Arabic: أَبُو بَكْر مُحَمَّد بْن ٱلطَّيِّب ٱلْبَاقِلَّانِيّ; 950 – 5 June 1013), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath who specialized in speculative theology, jurisprudence, logic, and hadith. He spent much of his life defending and strengthening the Ash'ari school of theology within Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Baqillani has received more than 130,928 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Baqillani is the 1,725th most popular religious figure, the 236th most popular biography from Iraq and the 29th most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.

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  • 130k

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  • 60.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Al-Baqillani ranks 1,725 out of 3,187. Before him are Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar, Joseph Genesius, Colette of Corbie, Mang of Xia, and Sava Petrović. After him are Péter Erdő, Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Gustav Trolle, Nicholas Tavelic, Francis Arinze, and Juliana Falconieri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 950, Al-Baqillani ranks 23. Before him are Odo I, Count of Blois, Sarolt, Otto II, Duke of Swabia, Herman I, Duke of Swabia, Domenico I Contarini, and Burchard of Worms. After him are Trdat, Thankmar, Joseph Bringas, Gudit, Gunnor, and Hugh, Margrave of Tuscany. Among people deceased in 1013, Al-Baqillani ranks 3. Before him are Al-Zahrawi, and Hisham II. After him is Reginar IV, Count of Mons.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Al-Baqillani ranks 236 out of 384. Before him are Al-Muwaffaq (842), Al-Asmaʿi (740), Ikunum (-1900), Nahor, son of Terah (null), Abu Sulayman Sijistani (932), and Ibn Abi'l-Hadid (1190). After him are Ninurta-apal-Ekur (-1300), Mutakkil-Nusku (-1200), Ashur-nadin-shumi (-800), Al-Samawal al-Maghribi (1130), Muqtada al-Sadr (1974), and Nechirvan Barzani (1966).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iraq

Among religious figures born in Iraq, Al-Baqillani ranks 29. Before him are Bashar ibn Burd (714), Lipit-Ishtar (-1890), Yahya ibn Ma'in (775), Ma'mar ibn al-Muthanna (728), Muhammad al-Sadr (1943), and Nahor, son of Terah (null). After him are Emmanuel III Delly (1927), Yitzhak Kaduri (1898), Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni (1879), Dinkha IV (1935), Louis Raphaël I Sako (1948), and Mullah Krekar (1956).

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