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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī

1837 - 1897

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Sayyid Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (Pashto/Persian: سید جمال‌‌‌الدین افغانی), also known as Sayyid Jamāl ad-Dīn Asadābādī (Persian: سید جمال‌‌‌الدین اسد‌آبادی) and commonly known as Al-Afghani (1838/1839 – 9 March 1897), was a political activist and Islamic ideologist who travelled throughout the Muslim world during the late 19th century. He is one of the founders of Islamic Modernism as well as an advocate of Pan-Islamic unity in India against the British, he has been described as having been less interested in minor differences in Islamic jurisprudence than he was in organizing a united response to Western pressure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī has received more than 324,041 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī is the 41st most popular social activist (down from 33rd in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Afghan Social Activist.

Jamāl al-dīn al-afghānī is most famous for being the founder of the Islamic State of Afghanistan.

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  • 320k

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  • 68.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī ranks 41 out of 538. Before him are Emily Greene Balch, Simon bar Kokhba, Nicholas Winton, Sophie Scholl, Jan Palach, and Emma Goldman. After him are Emmeline Pankhurst, Alfred Hermann Fried, Carl von Ossietzky, Thích Quảng Đức, Yemelyan Pugachev, and Stenka Razin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī ranks 7. Before him are Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Alois Hitler, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Grover Cleveland, J. P. Morgan, and Mily Balakirev. After him are Fredrik Bajer, Cosima Wagner, Adam Opel, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, and Pedro V of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1897, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī ranks 6. Before him are Johannes Brahms, Thérèse of Lisieux, Karl Weierstrass, Jacob Burckhardt, and Alphonse Daudet. After him are Savitribai Phule, Edward Drinker Cope, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, James Joseph Sylvester, Albert Marth, and Jiroemon Kimura.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī ranks 15 out of 145. Before him are Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909), Alauddin Khalji (1266), Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441), Amanullah Khan (1892), Abu Dawood (817), and Mahmud of Ghazni (971). After him are Mohammed Omar (1962), Babrak Karmal (1929), Humayun (1508), Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (1949), and Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Afghanistan

Among social activists born in Afghanistan, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī ranks 1. After him are Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956), Malalai of Maiwand (1861), and Sonita Alizadeh (1996).

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