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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mahmoud Taleghani

1911 - 1979

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Sayyid Mahmoud Alaei Taleghani (Persian: محمود طالقانی, , also Romanized as Mahmūd Tāleqānī; 5 March 1911 – 9 September 1979) was an Iranian theologian, Muslim reformer, democracy advocate and a senior Shi'a Islamic Scholar and thinker of Iran. and a leader in his own right of the movement against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. A founding member of the Freedom Movement of Iran, he has been described as a representative of the tendency of many "Shia clerics to blend Shia with Marxist ideals in order to compete with leftist movements for youthful supporters" during the 1960s and 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahmoud Taleghani has received more than 142,522 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mahmoud Taleghani is the 377th most popular social activist (down from 325th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from Iran (down from 273rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Social Activist.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.68

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  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 377 out of 538. Before him are Gustave Moynier, Lester R. Brown, Mary Harris Jones, Evelyn Mase, Estela de Carlotto, and Udham Singh. After him are Catharine MacKinnon, Naziha al-Dulaimi, Viola Desmond, Marie Popelin, Samantha Smith, and Gotō Shōjirō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 187. Before him are Mutara III Rudahigwa, Guido del Mestri, Said Akl, Maurice Schumann, Gerhard Stöck, and Antonio Guzmán Fernández. After him are Ralph Kirkpatrick, André Navarra, Masayuki Mori, Hédi Amara Nouira, Sándor Bíró, and Ellen Corby. Among people deceased in 1979, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 149. Before him are Minnie Riperton, Jim Hutton, Walter Legge, Juana de Ibarbourou, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, and John Cromwell. After him are Marcel Jouhandeau, John Diefenbaker, Amedeo Biavati, Louis Paul Boon, Donny Hathaway, and Henri Saint Cyr.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 305 out of 528. Before him are Kader Abdolah (1954), Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931), Iraj Mirza (1874), Bahram Beyzai (1938), Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892), and Dariush Mehrjui (1939). After him are Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), Ivan Galamian (1903), Ali-Morad Khan Zand (1779), Abdullah Mirza (1433), and Sami Yusuf (1980).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Iran

Among social activists born in Iran, Mahmoud Taleghani ranks 6. Before him are Shirin Ebadi (1947), Babak Khorramdin (798), Musa al-Sadr (1928), Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei (1899), and Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963). After him are Mina Ahadi (1956), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Maryam Namazie (1966), Reyhaneh Jabbari (1988), Ruhollah Zam (1978), and Execution of Navid Afkari (1993).

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