1263 - 1328
Ibn Taymiyya (Arabic: ٱبْن تَيْمِيَّة; 22 January 1263 – 26 September 1328) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, traditionist, ascetic, and proto-Salafi and iconoclastic theologian. He is known for his diplomatic involvement with the Ilkhanid ruler Ghazan Khan at the Battle of Marj al-Saffar, which ended the Mongol invasions of the Levant. A legal jurist of the Hanbali school, Ibn Taymiyya's condemnation of numerous folk practices associated with saint veneration and visitation of tombs made him a contentious figure with many rulers and scholars of the time, which caused him to be imprisoned several times as a result.A polarizing figure in his own times and the centuries that followed, Ibn Taymiyya has emerged as one of the most influential medieval scholars in late modern Sunni Islam. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Taymiyyah has received more than 2,155,381 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Ibn Taymiyyah is the 100th most popular philosopher (up from 105th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Turkey (up from 76th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Turkish Philosopher.
Ibn Taymiyyah is most famous for his belief that Muslims should not live under non-Muslim rule. He also believed that the Muslim world should be united under one caliphate.
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Among philosophers, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 100 out of 1,081. Before him are Anaximenes of Miletus, Walter Benjamin, Mencius, Zhuang Zhou, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, and Roland Barthes. After him are Theophrastus, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Henri de Saint-Simon, Jacques Derrida, Aristippus, and Joseph Priestley.
585 BC - 525 BC
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 94
1892 - 1940
HPI: 74.25
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372 BC - 289 BC
HPI: 74.23
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369 BC - 286 BC
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 97
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 98
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 99
1263 - 1328
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 100
371 BC - 287 BC
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 101
1767 - 1835
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 102
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 103
1930 - 2004
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 104
434 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 105
1733 - 1804
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 106
Among people born in 1263, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 1. After him are Isabella of Villehardouin, Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland, and David VIII of Georgia. Among people deceased in 1328, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 1. After him are Charles IV of France, Meister Eckhart, Clementia of Hungary, Isabella of Castile, Queen of Aragon, John of Montecorvino, Charles, Duke of Calabria, Yesün Temür, Galeazzo I Visconti, Ragibagh Khan, Prince Hisaaki, and Castruccio Castracani.
1263 - 1328
HPI: 73.77
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1263 - 1312
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1263 - 1330
HPI: 53.24
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1263 - 1311
HPI: 51.94
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1263 - 1328
HPI: 73.77
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1294 - 1328
HPI: 73.43
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1260 - 1328
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1293 - 1328
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1283 - 1328
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1246 - 1328
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1298 - 1328
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1293 - 1328
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1277 - 1328
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1320 - 1328
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1276 - 1328
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1281 - 1328
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Among people born in Turkey, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 73 out of 1,301. Before him are Aspasia (-470), Anaximenes of Miletus (-585), Hipparchus (-190), Rachel (-3500), Herostratus (-301), and Osman III (1699). After him are Mustafa III (1717), Murad V (1840), Lucian (120), Anacreon (-570), Alexios I Komnenos (1048), and Şehzade Cihangir (1531).
470 BC - 400 BC
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585 BC - 525 BC
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190 BC - 120 BC
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3500 BC - 1553 BC
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301 BC - 356 BC
HPI: 74.00
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1699 - 1757
HPI: 73.83
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1263 - 1328
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1717 - 1773
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1840 - 1904
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120 - 200
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570 BC - 485 BC
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1048 - 1118
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1531 - 1553
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Among philosophers born in Turkey, Ibn Taymiyyah ranks 10. Before him are Diogenes (-404), Anaxagoras (-500), Epictetus (50), Xenophanes (-570), Gregory of Nazianzus (329), and Anaximenes of Miletus (-585). After him are Chrysippus (-281), Posidonius (-135), Apollonius of Tyana (15), Proclus (412), Bias of Priene (-600), and Michael Psellos (1018).
404 BC - 322 BC
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500 BC - 428 BC
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50 - 135
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570 BC - 475 BC
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329 - 389
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585 BC - 525 BC
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1263 - 1328
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281 BC - 208 BC
HPI: 69.67
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135 BC - 51 BC
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 12
15 - 100
HPI: 68.07
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412 - 485
HPI: 67.48
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600 BC - 530 BC
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 15
1018 - 1078
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 16