1547 - 1621
Baha al-Din Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Amili (Arabic: بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي, romanized: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad bin Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī; 18 February 1547 – 1 September 1621) was a Levantine Arab Twelver Shi'a 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 (now Lebanon) but immigrated in his childhood to Safavid Iran with the rest of his family. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement before the spread of Copernican heliocentrism. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī has received more than 210,530 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī is the 677th most popular philosopher (down from 664th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 48th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Lebanese Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 677 out of 1,081. Before him are William Paley, Pyotr Lavrov, Jerry Fodor, Olavo de Carvalho, Edvard Westermarck, and P. F. Strawson. After him are Numenius of Apamea, Kitaro Nishida, William Heard Kilpatrick, Alexius Meinong, Antonio Rosmini, and Alvin Plantinga.
1743 - 1805
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 671
1823 - 1900
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 672
1935 - 2017
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 673
1947 - 2022
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 674
1862 - 1939
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 675
1919 - 2006
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 676
1547 - 1621
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 677
200 - 200
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 678
1870 - 1945
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 679
1871 - 1965
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 680
1853 - 1920
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 681
1797 - 1855
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 682
1932 - Present
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 683
Among people born in 1547, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 12. Before him are Stanisław Żółkiewski, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Oichi, Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Mateo Alemán, and Sanada Masayuki. After him are Rudolph Goclenius, George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Maciej Stryjkowski, Alof de Wignacourt, Jurij Dalmatin, and Ubbo Emmius. Among people deceased in 1621, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 19. Before him are Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania, Johann Arndt, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Catherine Stenbock, Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, and Jan Jesenius. After him are Anna Juliana Gonzaga, Ottavio Rinuccini, John Berchmans, Hendrick de Keyser, Pietro Aldobrandini, and Mary Sidney.
1547 - 1620
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 6
1547 - 1619
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 7
1547 - 1583
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 8
1547 - 1614
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 9
1547 - 1613
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 10
1547 - 1611
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 11
1547 - 1621
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 12
1547 - 1628
HPI: 54.98
Rank: 13
1547 - 1596
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 14
1547 - 1593
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 15
1547 - 1622
HPI: 51.69
Rank: 16
1547 - 1589
HPI: 50.41
Rank: 17
1547 - 1625
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 18
1574 - 1621
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 13
1555 - 1621
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 14
1573 - 1621
HPI: 57.12
Rank: 15
1535 - 1621
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 16
1578 - 1621
HPI: 56.54
Rank: 17
1566 - 1621
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 18
1547 - 1621
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 19
1566 - 1621
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 20
1562 - 1621
HPI: 54.69
Rank: 21
1599 - 1621
HPI: 54.29
Rank: 22
1565 - 1621
HPI: 53.22
Rank: 23
1571 - 1621
HPI: 52.90
Rank: 24
1561 - 1621
HPI: 49.76
Rank: 25
Among people born in Lebanon, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 50 out of 138. Before him are Nicolas Hayek (1928), Kamal Jumblatt (1917), Sabah (1927), Etel Adnan (1925), Bechara El Khoury (1890), and Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i (707). After him are Gazebo (1960), Maximus of Tyre (200), Elias Hrawi (1926), Omar Karami (1934), Antonella Lualdi (1931), and Abdalonymus (-305).
1928 - 2010
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 44
1917 - 1977
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 45
1927 - 2014
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 46
1925 - 2021
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 47
1890 - 1964
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 48
707 - 774
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 49
1547 - 1621
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 50
1960 - Present
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 51
200 - 200
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 52
1926 - 2006
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 53
1934 - 2015
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 54
1931 - 2023
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 55
305 BC - Present
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 56
Among philosophers born in Lebanon, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī ranks 3. Before him are Porphyry (233) and Zeno of Sidon (-150). After him are Maximus of Tyre (200) and Antoun Saadeh (1904).
233 - 305
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 1
150 BC - 75 BC
HPI: 58.40
Rank: 2
1547 - 1621
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 3
200 - 200
HPI: 54.84
Rank: 4
1904 - 1949
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 5