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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bahá'u'lláh

1817 - 1892

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Baháʼu'lláh (born Ḥusayn-ʻAlí; 12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892) was the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. He was born to an aristocratic family in Persia and was exiled due to his adherence to the messianic Bábí Faith. In 1863, in Iraq, he first announced his claim to a revelation from God and spent the rest of his life in further imprisonment in the Ottoman Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bahá'u'lláh has received more than 1,180,577 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Bahá'u'lláh is the 323rd most popular religious figure (down from 270th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Iran (down from 35th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

Bahá'u'lláh is most famous for being the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.

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  • 70.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 81

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 323 out of 2,238. Before him are Tiye, Matteo Ricci, Pope Felix III, Pope Alexander IV, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, and Idris. After him are Pope Marinus I, Marcion of Sinope, Pope Pelagius II, Pope Anacletus, Abu Hurairah, and Alcuin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 5. Before him are Henry David Thoreau, Theodor Mommsen, William III of the Netherlands, and Ivan Aivazovsky. After him are Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Charles-François Daubigny, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Syed Ahmad Khan, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, and Niels Gade. Among people deceased in 1892, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 3. Before him are Walt Whitman and Werner von Siemens. After him are Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Ernest Renan, Thomas Cook, Richard Owen, Édouard Lalo, Rudolf von Jhering, John Couch Adams, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 41 out of 528. Before him are Antiochus III the Great (-241), Ardashir I (180), Shapur I (150), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), Shams Tabrizi (1185), and Farah Pahlavi (1938). After him are Cambyses I (-600), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Astyages (-700), Abolhassan Banisadr (1933), Yazdegerd III (624), and Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Bahá'u'lláh ranks 7. Before him are Zoroaster (-2000), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Esther (-600), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), and Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817). After him are Báb (1819), Ibn Majah (824), Piruz Nahavandi (700), Mordecai (null), Sasan (200), and `Abdu'l-Bahá (1844).

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