SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam

1882 - 1935

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ʿIzz ad-Dīn ibn Abd al-Qāder ibn Mustafā ibn Yūsuf ibn Muhammad al-Qassām (Arabic: عز الدين بن عبد القادر بن مصطفى بن يوسف بن محمد القسام; 1881 or 19 December 1882 – 20 November 1935) was a Syrian Muslim preacher and a leader in the local struggles against British and French Mandatory rule in the Levant and an opponent of Zionism in the 1920s and 1930s. Qassam was born in Jableh, Syrian province of the Ottoman Empire in 1882. He studied at Al-Azhar University in Egypt and afterward became an Islamic revivalist preacher in his hometown. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam has received more than 565,974 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Izz ad-Din al-Qassam is the 53rd most popular social activist (up from 227th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Syria (up from 86th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 53 out of 840. Before him are Emma Goldman, Lê Đức Thọ, Yemelyan Pugachev, Alexey Stakhanov, Lal Bahadur Shastri, and Carl von Ossietzky. After him are Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Fanny Kaplan, Alfred Hermann Fried, Túpac Amaru II, Babak Khorramdin, and Stenka Razin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 30. Before him are Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Zoltán Kodály, Lili Elbe, Rodolfo Graziani, James Franck, and Edward Hopper. After him are Charles Ponzi, Emmerich Kálmán, Hans Geiger, A. A. Milne, Arthur Eddington, and Jacques Maritain. Among people deceased in 1935, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 18. Before him are Astrid of Sweden, André Citroën, Carlos Gardel, Auguste Escoffier, Victor Grignard, and Charles Richet. After him are Henri Barbusse, Paul Dukas, Hugo de Vries, Henri Pirenne, Komitas, and Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 20 out of 210. Before him are Muawiya II (661), Marwan II (688), Julia Domna (160), Al-Nawawi (1233), Al-Maʿarri (973), and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292). After him are John Climacus (579), Iamblichus (245), Aemilius Papinianus (142), Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (691), Al-Adil I (1145), and Ibn al-Nafis (1212).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Syria

Among social activists born in Syria, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 1. After him are Muhammad Zaidan (1948), Nazik al-Abid (1898), Razan Zaitouneh (1977), Maryam al-Khawaja (1987), and Abdulrahman Akkad (1998).

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