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Ali Shariati

1933 - 1977

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Ali Shariati Mazinani (Persian: علی شریعتی مزینانی, 23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ali Shariati has received more than 701,141 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Ali Shariati is the 1,005th most popular writer (down from 872nd in 2019), the 136th most popular biography from Iran (down from 113th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Iranian Writer.

Ali Shariati was a religious intellectual and activist who is most famous for his book, The Sociology of Islam.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

And Once Again Abu Dharr
1992
Hajj
Religion
1984
My Flowers
1999
al-Imam Ali
2000
Religion Vs. Religion
Religion
1993
Fatima Is Fatima
Religion
19824 / 5

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ali Shariati ranks 1,005 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Webster, Nicolas Chamfort, Edith Wharton, Bertran de Born, Mori Ōgai, and Joseph Murphy. After him are Jean Giraudoux, Vladimir Bartol, Machado de Assis, Herodian, Juan Antonio Villacañas, and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Ali Shariati ranks 69. Before him are Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Horst Buchholz, Edmund Phelps, Henryk Górecki, Richard S. Castellano, and Willie Nelson. After him are Than Shwe, Robert Curl, Sandra Milo, Cees Nooteboom, Danny Aiello, and Fouad Mebazaa. Among people deceased in 1977, Ali Shariati ranks 35. Before him are Peter Finch, Gudrun Ensslin, Groucho Marx, Sergey Ilyushin, James Jones, and Abdel Halim Hafez. After him are Clementine Churchill, Steve Biko, Francis Gary Powers, Gangubai Kothewali, Alia Al-Hussein, and Olave Baden-Powell.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ali Shariati ranks 136 out of 631. Before him are Artavasdes II of Armenia (-100), Mulla Sadra (1571), Sibawayh (760), Jahan Shah (1397), Piruz Nahavandi (700), and Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252). After him are `Abdu'l-Bahá (1844), Arsaces I of Parthia (-280), Datis (-600), Osroes I (50), Musa al-Sadr (1928), and Suleiman of Persia (1647).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Ali Shariati ranks 14. Before him are Saadi Shirazi (1210), Jami (1414), Doris Lessing (1919), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), and Magtymguly Pyragy (1733). After him are Forough Farrokhzad (1935), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Baba Tahir (947), Táhirih (1817), and Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125).

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