RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Báb

1819 - 1850

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The Báb (born ʿAlí Muḥammad; ; Persian: علی محمد; 20 October 1819 – 9 July 1850) was an Iranian religious leader who founded Bábism, and is also one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith. The Báb gradually and progressively revealed his claim in his extensive writings to be a Manifestation of God, of a status as great as Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, receiving revelations as profound as the Torah, Gospel, and Quran. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Báb has received more than 1,454,317 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Báb is the 446th most popular religious figure (down from 440th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Iran (down from 55th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

Báb is a traditional Iranian bread that is usually served for breakfast. It's made from white flour, yeast, salt, and water.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Báb ranks 446 out of 3,187. Before him are Nehemiah, Saint Apollonia, Pope Boniface III, Beatrice Portinari, Pope Vitalian, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. After him are Pope Conon, Pope Hilarius, Pope Callixtus I, Pope Stephen IV, Ammar ibn Yasir, and Abdullah ibn Umar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Báb ranks 10. Before him are Clara Schumann, Léon Foucault, Herman Melville, Albert, Prince Consort, Walt Whitman, and Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet. After him are Hippolyte Fizeau, Maria II of Portugal, John Ruskin, George Eliot, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, and John Couch Adams. Among people deceased in 1850, Báb ranks 7. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Louis Philippe I, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, William Wordsworth, Zachary Taylor, and Daoguang Emperor. After him are José de San Martín, Marie Tussaud, Frédéric Bastiat, Louise of Orléans, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, and Lin Zexu.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Báb ranks 58 out of 631. Before him are Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932), Yazdegerd III (624), Shirin Ebadi (1947), Ghazan (1271), Astyages (-700), and Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940). After him are Attar of Nishapur (1145), Moshe Katsav (1945), Cyaxares (-700), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934), Masoud Barzani (1946), and Cyrus I (-690).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Báb ranks 8. Before him are Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Esther (-600), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Abdul Qadir Gilani (1078), Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (817), and Bahá'u'lláh (1817). After him are Ibn Majah (824), Mordecai (null), Sasan (200), Anastasius of Persia (550), Piruz Nahavandi (700), and Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252).

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