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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

1835 - 1908

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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and Mahdī—which is the metaphorical second-coming of Jesus (mathīl-iʿIsā), in fulfillment of the Islamic prophecies regarding the end times, as well as the Mujaddid (centennial reviver) of the 14th Islamic century.Born to a family with aristocratic roots in Qadian, rural Punjab, Ahmad emerged as a writer and debater for Islam. When he was just over forty years of age, his father died and around that time he believed that God began to communicate with him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad has received more than 2,822,211 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is the 702nd most popular religious figure (up from 711th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from India (up from 98th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Mirza Ghulam Ahmad has had the most page views in the with 389,964 views, followed by Arabic (34,521), and Indonesian (22,647). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (222.65%), Hausa (205.44%), and Simple English (100.14%)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 702 out of 3,187. Before him are 6th Dalai Lama, Pancras of Rome, Lydia of Thyatira, Martin de Porres, Gertrude the Great, and Antipas of Pergamum. After him are Abdullah ibn Salam, Epiphanius of Salamis, Thomas Wolsey, Émile Benveniste, Johann Tetzel, and Gertrude of Nivelles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 16. Before him are Samuel Butler, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Henryk Wieniawski, Giosuè Carducci, William Stanley Jevons, and Fukuzawa Yukichi. After him are Josef Stefan, Eduard Strauss, Demetrius Vikelas, Nikolai Rubinstein, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Sai Baba of Shirdi. Among people deceased in 1908, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 10. Before him are Guangxu Emperor, Grover Cleveland, Edmondo De Amicis, Randal Cremer, Carlos I of Portugal, and Pablo de Sarasate. After him are Demetrius Vikelas, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Victorien Sardou, Machado de Assis, and Butch Cassidy.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 92 out of 1,861. Before him are Pervez Musharraf (1943), Bindusara (-320), Pete Best (1941), Ram Mohan Roy (1772), Varāhamihira (505), and Patanjali (-200). After him are Ramanuja (1017), Ronald Ross (1857), Cliff Richard (1940), Ram Nath Kovind (1945), Prithviraj Chauhan (1159), and Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 9. Before him are Sathya Sai Baba (1926), Radha (null), Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), and Maudgalyayana (-568). After him are Mahavatar Babaji (1900), Ravi Shankar (1956), Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918).

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