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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ibn Babawayh

918 - 992

Ibn Babawayh

Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi (Persian: محمد بن علی بن بابَوَیْهِ قمی Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱبْن بَابَوَيْه ٱلْقُمِيّ; c. 923–991), commonly referred to as Ibn Babawayh (Persian: ابن‌ بابویه Arabic: ٱبْن بَابَوَيْه) or al-Shaykh al-Saduq (Persian: شیخ صدوق Arabic: ٱلشَّيْخ ٱلصَّدُوق, lit. 'the truthful scholar') was a Persian Shia Islamic scholar whose work, entitled Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih (مَنْ لَا یَحْضُرُهُ ٱلْفَقِیهُ), forms part of The Four Books of the Shia Hadith collection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Babawayh has received more than 123,355 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ibn Babawayh is the 1,081st most popular religious figure (up from 1,093rd in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Iran (up from 173rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

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120k
Page Views (PV)
57.87
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
17
Languages Editions (L)
3.69
Effective Languages (L*)
2.20
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ibn Babawayh ranks 1,081 out of 2,238. Before him are Nahshon, Pamphilus of Caesarea, Elizabeth Blount, Anthony Mary Claret, Meletius of Antioch, and Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw. After him are Adhemar of Le Puy, Accursius, Felix of Valois, Pelagia, Justo Gallego Martínez, and Leopold Mandić.

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HPI: 57.96
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HPI: 57.95
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1500 - 1539
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,077
Anthony Mary Claret
1807 - 1870
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,078
Meletius of Antioch
400 - 381
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 1,079
Charles of Austria, Bishop of Wroclaw
1590 - 1624
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 1,080
Ibn Babawayh
918 - 992
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 1,081
Adhemar of Le Puy
1055 - 1098
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 1,082
Accursius
1182 - 1260
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 1,083
Felix of Valois
1127 - 1212
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 1,084
Pelagia
400 - 457
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 1,085
Justo Gallego Martínez
1925 - 2021
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,086
Leopold Mandić
1866 - 1942
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 1,087

Contemporaries

Among people born in 918, Ibn Babawayh ranks 2. Before him is Haakon the Good. Among people deceased in 992, Ibn Babawayh ranks 3. Before him are Mieszko I of Poland and Jawhar. After him are Leo the Deacon, Conan I of Rennes, Matilda of France, and Oswald of Worcester.