RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Fethullah Gülen

1941 - 2024

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Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (27 April 1941 – 20 October 2024) was a Turkish Muslim scholar, preacher, and leader of the Gülen movement who as of 2016 had millions of followers. Gülen was an influential neo-Ottomanist, Anatolian panethnicist, Islamic poet, writer, social critic, and activist–dissident developing a Nursian theological perspective that embraces democratic modernity. Gülen was a local state imam from 1959 to 1981 and he was a citizen of Turkey until his denaturalization by the Turkish government in 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fethullah Gülen has received more than 3,240,433 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Fethullah Gülen is the 398th most popular religious figure (down from 312th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 120th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Turkish Religious Figure.

Fethullah Gülen is most famous for being a Turkish Muslim scholar and preacher who is the founder of the Gülen movement.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Fethullah Gülen ranks 398 out of 3,187. Before him are Faustina Kowalska, Pope Paul I, Pope Nicholas IV, Pope Gregory II, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Awf, and Pope Symmachus. After him are Zacchaeus, Maximus the Confessor, Pope Zosimus, Pope Agapetus II, Pope John IX, and Pope John XVII.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Fethullah Gülen ranks 19. Before him are Robert Forster, Plácido Domingo, Bruno Ganz, Richard Dawkins, Lee Myung-bak, and Martha Argerich. After him are Mahmoud Darwish, Franco Nero, Graham Chapman, Harry Nilsson, Ryan O'Neal, and Charlie Watts. Among people deceased in 2024, Fethullah Gülen ranks 8. Before him are Franz Beckenbauer, Mário Zagallo, Maggie Smith, Daniel Kahneman, Donald Sutherland, and Alberto Fujimori. After him are Peter Higgs, Paul Auster, Anouk Aimée, Alice Munro, Ismail Kadare, and Sven-Göran Eriksson.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Fethullah Gülen ranks 138 out of 1,347. Before him are Simeon Stylites (389), John VIII Palaiologos (1392), Apelles (-370), Arrian (89), Maurice (539), and Proclus (412). After him are Alaeddin Pasha (1250), Saint Nino (296), Al-Battani (858), Thecla (100), Nikephoros II Phokas (912), and Yunus Emre (1240).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Türkiye

Among religious figures born in Türkiye, Fethullah Gülen ranks 20. Before him are Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940), Gregory of Nyssa (335), Photios I of Constantinople (900), Sabbatai Zevi (1626), Parascheva of the Balkans (1000), and Simeon Stylites (389). After him are Saint Nino (296), Thecla (100), Marcion of Sinope (85), Pope John V (635), Pope John VI (655), and Laban (-1900).

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