1882 - 1935
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 a militant 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 477,565 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam is the 227th most popular social activist (down from 204th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Syria (down from 76th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Social Activist.
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Among social activists, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 227 out of 538. Before him are Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kartini, Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Christoph Probst, Carl Oberg, and Ryszard Siwiec. After him are Nikolai Kuznetsov, Nancy Wake, Abba Kovner, Anna Hazare, Hazi Aslanov, and Jean Ziegler.
1915 - 1977
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 221
1879 - 1904
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 222
1390 - 1436
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 223
1919 - 1943
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 224
1897 - 1965
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 225
1909 - 1968
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 226
1882 - 1935
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 227
1911 - 1944
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 228
1912 - 2011
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 229
1918 - 1987
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 230
1937 - Present
HPI: 54.79
Rank: 231
1910 - 1945
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 232
1934 - Present
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 233
Among people born in 1882, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 94. Before him are Song Jiaoren, Kimon Georgiev, Inayat Khan, Lucien Petit-Breton, Raymonde de Laroche, and Bronisław Huberman. After him are Anna Schäffer, Infanta María Teresa of Spain, Volin, Christian Mortensen, Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and August Kopff. Among people deceased in 1935, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 51. Before him are Princess Alice of Parma, Gareth Jones, Valerian Kuybyshev, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Abraham Isaac Kook, and Bernhard Schmidt. After him are Juan Vicente Gómez, René Crevel, Ruan Lingyu, James Henry Breasted, Meletius IV of Constantinople, and Arthur Arz von Straußenburg.
1882 - 1913
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 88
1882 - 1969
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 89
1882 - 1927
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 90
1882 - 1917
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 91
1882 - 1919
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 92
1882 - 1947
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 93
1882 - 1935
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 94
1882 - 1925
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 95
1882 - 1912
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 96
1882 - 1945
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 97
1882 - 1998
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 98
1882 - 1918
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 99
1882 - 1960
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 100
1849 - 1935
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 45
1905 - 1935
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 46
1888 - 1935
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 47
1859 - 1935
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 48
1865 - 1935
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 49
1879 - 1935
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 50
1882 - 1935
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 51
1857 - 1935
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 52
1900 - 1935
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 53
1910 - 1935
HPI: 54.31
Rank: 54
1865 - 1935
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 55
1871 - 1935
HPI: 53.99
Rank: 56
1857 - 1935
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 57
Among people born in Syria, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 86 out of 181. Before him are Al-Qa'im (893), Anisa Makhlouf (1930), Ahmad ibn Arabshah (1389), Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912), Shukri al-Quwatli (1891), and Numenius of Apamea (200). After him are Alciphron (200), Soraya Tarzi (1899), Adib Shishakli (1909), Salah Jadid (1926), Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik (685), and Cassius Longinus (213).
893 - 946
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 80
1930 - 2016
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 81
1389 - 1450
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 82
1912 - 1980
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 83
1891 - 1967
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 84
200 - 200
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 85
1882 - 1935
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 86
200 - 200
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 87
1899 - 1968
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 88
1909 - 1964
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 89
1926 - 1993
HPI: 54.55
Rank: 90
685 - 738
HPI: 54.51
Rank: 91
213 - 273
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 92
Among social activists born in Syria, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 1. After him are Muhammad Zaidan (1948) and Razan Zaitouneh (1977).
1882 - 1935
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 1
1948 - 2004
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 2
1977 - Present
HPI: 36.02
Rank: 3