RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad

985 - 1021

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Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad (Arabic: حمزة بن علي بن أحمد, romanized: Ḥamza ibn ‘Alī ibn ʾAḥmad; c. 985–c. 1021) was an 11th-century Persian Ismai'li missionary and founding leader of the Druze. He was born in Zuzan in Greater Khorasan in Samanid-ruled Persia (modern Khaf, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran), and preached his heterodox strand of Isma'ilism in Cairo during the reign of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad has received more than 132,842 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad is the 1,606th most popular religious figure (up from 1,848th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Iran (up from 268th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad ranks 1,606 out of 3,187. Before him are Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi, Gregory III Laham, Ushpia, Hans Tausen, Bernward of Hildesheim, and Honoratus. After him are Laurean Rugambwa, Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich, Luigi Jacobini, Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Michel Sabbah, and Lawrence Justinian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 985, Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad ranks 7. Before him are Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Emma of Normandy, Radbot of Klettgau, Adalbert, Margrave of Austria, Rodulfus Glaber, and Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany. After him are Theobald II of Blois, and Eilmer of Malmesbury. Among people deceased in 1021, Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad ranks 3. Before him are Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and Minamoto no Yorimitsu.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad ranks 240 out of 631. Before him are Hayedeh (1942), Aga Khan II (1830), Vardanes I (10), Esmail Ghaani (1957), Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi (1875), and Ahmad Shamlou (1925). After him are Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Shams Pahlavi (1917), Orodes I of Parthia (-190), Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani (798), Morteza Motahhari (1919), and Marjane Satrapi (1969).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad ranks 27. Before him are Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (933), Ibn Khuzayma (838), Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi (1627), Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854), Aga Khan II (1830), and Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi (1875). After him are Morteza Motahhari (1919), Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948), Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935), Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1921), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), and Sadegh Khalkhali (1926).

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