SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Hassan al-Banna

1906 - 1949

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Hassan Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Muhammed al-Banna (Arabic: حسن أحمد عبد الرحمن محمد البنا; 14 October 1906 – 12 February 1949), known as Hassan al-Banna (Arabic: حسن البنا), was an Egyptian schoolteacher and Imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest and most influential global Islamist movements. Al-Banna's writings marked a turning-point in Islamic intellectual history by presenting a modern ideology based on Islam. Al-Banna considered Islam to be a comprehensive system of life, with the Quran and Sunnah as the only acceptable constitution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hassan al-Banna has received more than 1,118,608 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Hassan al-Banna is the 31st most popular social activist (up from 48th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 76th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Social Activist.

Hassan al-Banna is most famous for being the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Hassan al-Banna ranks 31 out of 840. Before him are Charlotte Corday, Guy Fawkes, Irena Sendler, Simon bar Kokhba, Omar Mukhtar, and Emily Greene Balch. After him are Élie Ducommun, Sadako Sasaki, Emiliano Zapata, Lady Godiva, Ferdinand Lassalle, and Jan Palach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Hassan al-Banna ranks 16. Before him are Kurt Gödel, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, Albert Hofmann, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Victor Vasarely, and Josephine Baker. After him are Sayyid Qutb, Sergei Korolev, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Billy Wilder, Henri Charrière, and Hans Bethe. Among people deceased in 1949, Hassan al-Banna ranks 6. Before him are Maurice Maeterlinck, Richard Strauss, George Gurdjieff, Sigrid Undset, and Georgi Dimitrov. After him are Edward Thorndike, Margaret Mitchell, Friedrich Bergius, James Ensor, Charles Ponzi, and Klaus Mann.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Hassan al-Banna ranks 59 out of 642. Before him are Cleopatra I Syra (-204), Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922), Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (1921), Shoshenq I (-1000), Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (-60), and Cleopatra Selene II (-40). After him are Sayyid Qutb (1906), Sextus Empiricus (160), Djedefre (-2600), Appian (95), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), and Ptolemy VIII Physcon (-182).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Egypt

Among social activists born in Egypt, Hassan al-Banna ranks 1. After him are Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927), Huda Sha'arawi (1879), Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872), Maggie Gobran (1949), Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (1991), Asmaa Mahfouz (1985), Sarah Hegazi (1989), and Nadeen Ashraf (1998).

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