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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

1969 - Today

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali; born 13 November 1969) is a Somalian-born Dutch-American writer, activist, conservative thinker and former politician. She is a critic of Islam and advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, opposing forced marriage, honour killing, child marriage, and female genital mutilation. At the age of five, following local traditions in Somalia, Ali underwent female genital mutilation organized by her grandmother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ayaan Hirsi Ali has received more than 4,581,540 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the 1,052nd most popular philosopher (down from 970th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Somalia (up from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Somali Philosopher.

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  • 54

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  • 3.47

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  • 5.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ayaan Hirsi Ali ranks 1,052 out of 1,267. Before her are Hermann Gunkel, Keshub Chandra Sen, Justus Möser, Samuel ibn Tibbon, Rémi Brague, and Immanuel Hermann Fichte. After her are Joachim Camerarius, Hubert Dreyfus, Max Dessoir, Cleopatra the Alchemist, Bas van Fraassen, and Jerzy Żuławski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Ayaan Hirsi Ali ranks 147. Before her are Virginie Despentes, Brian Krause, Dexter Jackson, Adela Noriega, Ariadna Gil, and Timothy D. Snyder. After her are Robert Habeck, Donnie Wahlberg, Terrence Howard, Yannick Bisson, Paulo Sérgio, and Paget Brewster.

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In Somalia

Among people born in Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali ranks 15 out of 58. Before her are Aden Adde (1908), Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856), Nur Hassan Hussein (1937), Abdirashid Shermarke (1919), Ali Mahdi Muhammad (1939), and Nuruddin Farah (1945). After her are Abdulqawi Yusuf (1948), Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (1936), Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (1962), Hassan Ali Khayre (1968), Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal (1928), and Abdi Farah Shirdon (1958).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Somalia

Among philosophers born in Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali ranks 1. 

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