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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 330,399 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī is the 44th most popular social activist (down from 41st in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 15th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

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  • 72.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī ranks 44 out of 840. Before him are Sophie Scholl, Shirin Ebadi, Simon Wiesenthal, Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Niemöller, and Angela Davis. After him are Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Pheidippides, Emma Goldman, Lê Đức Thọ, Yemelyan Pugachev, and Alexey Stakhanov.

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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, J. P. Morgan, Grover Cleveland, and Fredrik Bajer. After him are Mily Balakirev, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Cosima Wagner, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Marie François Sadi Carnot, and Adam Opel. Among people deceased in 1897, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī ranks 7. Before him are Johannes Brahms, Thérèse of Lisieux, Alphonse Daudet, Karl Weierstrass, Jacob Burckhardt, and Edward Drinker Cope. After him are Savitribai Phule, Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria, Albert Marth, James Joseph Sylvester, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, and Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī ranks 10 out of 177. Before him are Roxana (-347), Hamid Karzai (1957), Abu Dawood (817), Humayun (1508), Mahmud of Ghazni (971), and Ali-Shir Nava'i (1441). After him are Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Hafizullah Amin (1929), Amanullah Khan (1892), and Babrak Karmal (1929).

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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 Malalai of Maiwand (1861), Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956), Zakia Zaki (1962), Sonita Alizadeh (1996), Aqeela Asifi (1966), Aziza Siddiqui (1983), Jamila Afghani (1976), and Bibi Aisha (1991).

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