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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 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

Among social activists, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 227 out of 538Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 94Before 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 51Before 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.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 86 out of 181Before 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).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Syria

Among social activists born in Syria, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam ranks 1After him are Muhammad Zaidan (1948) and Razan Zaitouneh (1977).