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Mahmoud Mohammed Taha

1909 - 1985

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Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, (1909 – 18 January 1985; Arabic: محمود محمد طه) also known as Ustaz Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, was a Sudanese religious thinker, leader, and trained engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmoud Mohammed Taha has received more than 165,298 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mahmoud Mohammed Taha is the 252nd most popular historian (down from 250th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Sudan (down from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Sudanese Historian.

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  • 59.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha ranks 252 out of 561. Before him are Vakhushti of Kartli, Yahya of Antioch, Quentin Skinner, Fritz Fischer, Festus, and İlber Ortaylı. After him are Arno Peters, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Ibn Hayyan, Charles Rollin, Joseph de Guignes, and Charles Barbier de Meynard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha ranks 162. Before him are Miklós Radnóti, Ivan Bek, Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, Henryk Jabłoński, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, and Tom Ewell. After him are John Haigh, Edwin H. Land, Leone Ginzburg, Wang Zhen, Burl Ives, and Spyros Markezinis. Among people deceased in 1985, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha ranks 107. Before him are Kenny Clarke, Márton Bukovi, Taizo Kawamoto, Attilio Bettega, Manfred Winkelhock, and Georgia Hale. After him are Pavel Batov, Sergei Gerasimov, Renato Castellani, Jock Stein, Salvador Espriu, and Francesca Bertini.

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In Sudan

Among people born in Sudan, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha ranks 18 out of 38. Before him are Tayeb Salih (1929), Ibrahim Abboud (1900), Manute Bol (1962), Ismail al-Azhari (1901), Hassan Al-Turabi (1932), and Abdalla Hamdok (1956). After him are Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf (1954), Ahmed al-Mirghani (1941), Gabriel Zubeir Wako (1941), Babiker Awadalla (1917), Sadiq al-Mahdi (1935), and Alexander Siddig (1965).

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Among HISTORIANS In Sudan

Among historians born in Sudan, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha ranks 1. 

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