RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Morteza Motahhari

1919 - 1979

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Morteza Motahhari (Persian: مرتضی مطهری, also Romanized as "Mortezā Motahharī"; 31 January 1919 – 1 May 1979) was an Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, philosopher, lecturer. Motahhari is considered to have an important influence on the ideologies of the Islamic Republic, among others. He was a co-founder of Hosseiniye Ershad and the Combatant Clergy Association (Jāme'e-ye Rowhāniyat-e Mobārez). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Morteza Motahhari has received more than 279,627 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Morteza Motahhari is the 1,654th most popular religious figure (down from 1,605th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Iran (down from 227th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Morteza Motahhari ranks 1,654 out of 3,187. Before him are Fernando Ocáriz Braña, Emil Krebs, Dionigi Tettamanzi, Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Jan Łaski, and Kōdō Sawaki. After him are Barbara West, Saint Aurelius, Pietro Riario, Frederick William Franz, Santos Abril y Castelló, and Romanus of Caesarea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Morteza Motahhari ranks 110. Before him are Toni Turek, Raymond Smullyan, Ferdinand Kübler, Hennes Weisweiler, Ferruccio Valcareggi, and J. Presper Eckert. After him are Beate Uhse-Rotermund, Artur Fischer, Bernhard Wicki, Anatoly Dobrynin, Vikram Sarabhai, and Doris Miller. Among people deceased in 1979, Morteza Motahhari ranks 91. Before him are Ahmad Zahir, Preguinho, Philippe Halsman, Santos Urdinarán, Larisa Shepitko, and Katharine Burr Blodgett. After him are Ferenc Nagy, Vagif Mustafazadeh, José María Velasco Ibarra, Joseph Alcazar, Léonide Massine, and David Butler.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Morteza Motahhari ranks 245 out of 631. Before him are Ahmad Shamlou (1925), Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad (985), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Shams Pahlavi (1917), Orodes I of Parthia (-190), and Abdallah ibn Tahir al-Khurasani (798). After him are Marjane Satrapi (1969), Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948), Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1933), Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), Nima Yooshij (1897), and Raffi (1835).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Morteza Motahhari ranks 28. Before him are Ibn Khuzayma (838), Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi (1627), Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854), Aga Khan II (1830), Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi (1875), and Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad (985). After him are Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948), Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935), Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1921), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), Sadegh Khalkhali (1926), and Navvab Safavi (1924).

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