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Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī

1547 - 1621

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Baha al-Din Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Amili (Arabic: بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; 18 February 1547 – 1 September 1621), also known as Bahāddīn ʿĀmilī, or just Sheikh Bahāʾi (Persian: شیخ بهایی) in Iran, was a Levantine Arab Shia Islamic scholar, poet, philosopher, architect, mathematician and astronomer, who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Safavid Iran. He was born in Baalbek, Ottoman Syria (present-day Lebanon) but immigrated in his childhood to Safavid Iran with the rest of his family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī has received more than 214,017 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī is the 706th most popular philosopher (down from 677th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 50th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Lebanese Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 706 out of 1,267. Before him are Pantaenus, Numenius of Apamea, Olaf Stapledon, Crantor, Anne Conway, and Eknath. After him are Joseph Albo, Julien Benda, Cristoforo Landino, Edvard Westermarck, Asclepigenia, and Nikolai Amosov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1547, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 14. Before him are Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Oichi, Mateo Alemán, Sanada Masayuki, Rudolph Goclenius, and George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Maciej Stryjkowski, Krzysztof "Piorun" Radziwiłł, Alof de Wignacourt, Princess Sophia of Sweden, Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg, and Ubbo Emmius. Among people deceased in 1621, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 18. Before him are Catherine Stenbock, Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania, Antoine de Montchrestien, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Johann Arndt, and Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes. After him are John Berchmans, Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy, Jan Jesenius, Hendrick de Keyser, Ottavio Rinuccini, and Anna Juliana Gonzaga.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 59 out of 145. Before him are Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (1940), Nicolas Hayek (1928), Maximus of Tyre (200), Serj Tankian (1967), Fawzi al-Qawuqji (1890), and Ahmad Shukeiri (1908). After him are Elie Hobeika (1956), Mikha'il Na'ima (1889), Fuad Chehab (1902), René Moawad (1925), Fakhr al-Din II (1572), and Elias Hrawi (1926).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Lebanon

Among philosophers born in Lebanon, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 4. Before him are Porphyry (233), Zeno of Sidon (-150), and Maximus of Tyre (200). After him are Antoun Saadeh (1904).

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