PHILOSOPHER

Muhammad Abduh

1849 - 1905

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Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849 – 11 July 1905) (also spelled Mohammed Abduh, Arabic: محمد عبده) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar, judge, and Grand Mufti of Egypt. He was a central figure of the Arab Nahḍa and Islamic Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He began teaching advanced students esoteric Islamic texts at Al-Azhar University while he was still studying there. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Abduh has received more than 648,625 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Muhammad Abduh is the 198th most popular philosopher (down from 184th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 64th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Egyptian Philosopher.

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  • 68.45

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  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Muhammad Abduh ranks 198 out of 1,267. Before her are Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Baltasar Gracián, Slavoj Žižek, Diotima of Mantinea, Solomon ibn Gabirol, and Melissus of Samos. After her are Adam Weishaupt, John Scotus Eriugena, Hasan al-Basri, Marshall McLuhan, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, and Paulo Freire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Muhammad Abduh ranks 3. Before her are Ivan Pavlov, and August Strindberg. After her are August von Mackensen, Édouard-Henri Avril, Felix Klein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bernhard von Bülow, John William Waterhouse, Alfred von Tirpitz, Sergei Witte, and Bertha Benz. Among people deceased in 1905, Muhammad Abduh ranks 3. Before her are Jules Verne, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau. After her are Ferdinand von Richthofen, Ernst Abbe, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Per Teodor Cleve, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Louise Michel, Adolph Menzel, and Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Muhammad Abduh ranks 79 out of 642. Before her are Fuad I of Egypt (1868), Amenhotep II (-1401), Pachomius the Great (292), Eli Cohen (1924), Saint Apollonia (110), and Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985). After her are Al-Kamil (1177), Saint Maurice (250), Lactantius (250), Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Teti (-2350), and Psamtik I (-700).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Egypt

Among philosophers born in Egypt, Muhammad Abduh ranks 6. Before her are Origen (185), Plotinus (203), Athanasius of Alexandria (295), Philo (-15), and Sextus Empiricus (160). After her are Ammonius Saccas (175), Saadia Gaon (882), John Philoponus (490), Olympiodorus the Younger (495), Dhul-Nun al-Misri (796), and Valentinus (100).

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