RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Hamza Yusuf

1958 - Today

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Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson; 1958) is an American Islamic neo-traditionalist, Islamic scholar, and co-founder of Zaytuna College. He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world. He is an advisor to both the Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and the Islamic Studies programme at Stanford University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hamza Yusuf has received more than 1,500,834 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hamza Yusuf is the 3,048th most popular religious figure (down from 2,708th in 2019), the 12,673rd most popular biography from United States (down from 12,670th in 2019) and the 109th most popular American Religious Figure.

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  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Hamza Yusuf ranks 3,048 out of 3,187. Before him are Desmond Connell, Paul Hinder, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Katharine Drexel, Augusto Paolo Lojudice, and Abdul Rahman. After him are F. F. Bruce, Gianni Ambrosio, Peter Okpaleke, Hafiz Saeed, Trinley Thaye Dorje, and Varkey Vithayathil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Hamza Yusuf ranks 595. Before him are Jules Bocandé, Audronius Ažubalis, Ron Simmons, Anissa Jones, Leonhard Stock, and Luther Blissett. After him are Bernard Blancan, Bob Bell, Ramona Neubert, Kelly Johnson, Daley Thompson, and Turgut Aykaç.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hamza Yusuf ranks 12,673 out of 20,380. Before him are Vince Edwards (1928), Sheri Moon Zombie (1970), Twiggy Ramirez (1971), Billy Miller (1979), Sean Hayes (1970), and Don L. Lind (1930). After him are Carl Robie (1945), Michael Mukasey (1941), Dorothy Davenport (1895), Andrea Anders (1975), Robert Bork (1927), and Walter Payton (1954).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, Hamza Yusuf ranks 109. Before him are Franklin Graham (1952), John Shelby Spong (1931), John Wright (1909), Richard Cushing (1895), James Aloysius Hickey (1920), and Katharine Drexel (1858). After him are James Gibbons (1834), Katharine Jefferts Schori (1954), Robert W. McElroy (1954), Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865), Terence Cooke (1921), and Joseph Bernardin (1928).

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