POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Muhammad Asad

1900 - 1992

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Muhammad Asad, (Arabic: محمد أسد, Urdu: محمد اسد, born Leopold Weiss; 2 July 1900 – 20 February 1992) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Jew and convert to Islam who worked as a journalist, traveler, writer, linguist, political theorist, and diplomat.His translation of the Quran in English, "The Message of The Qur'an" is one of the most notable of his works. In Asad's words in "The Message of the Quran": "the work which I am now placing before the public is based on a lifetime of study and of many years spent in Arabia. It is an attempt – perhaps the first attempt – at a really idiomatic, explanatory rendition of the Qur'anic message into a European language." By age 13, Weiss had acquired a passing fluency in Hebrew and Aramaic, on top of his native German and Polish languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Asad has received more than 822,977 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Muhammad Asad is the 18th most popular political scientist (down from 17th in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 266th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Political Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 820k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Muhammad Asads by language

Over the past year Muhammad Asad has had the most page views in the with 117,882 views, followed by Arabic (14,325), and German (11,244). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Persian (194.33%), Malay (34.80%), and French (29.48%)

Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Muhammad Asad ranks 18 out of 46. Before him are Gene Sharp, Maurice Duverger, David Easton, Robert A. Dahl, Joseph Nye, and John Mearsheimer. After him are Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Ilan Pappé, Arend Lijphart, Norman Finkelstein, Robert D. Putnam, and William Graham Sumner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Muhammad Asad ranks 108. Before him are Arturo Umberto Illia, Herbert Blumer, Gilbert Ryle, Miguel Alemán Valdés, James Hilton, and Zhang Wentian. After him are Valko Chervenkov, Oskar Fischinger, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Srinagarindra, Mikhail Katukov, and Ernst Krenek. Among people deceased in 1992, Muhammad Asad ranks 84. Before him are Isidro Lángara, Rafael Orozco Maestre, Camarón de la Isla, Heinrich Eberbach, Dick York, and Ajahn Chah. After him are Richard Brooks, Jean Dieudonné, Audre Lorde, Wang Hongwen, Arpad Elo, and Josy Barthel.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Muhammad Asad ranks 315 out of 1,365. Before him are Tadeusz Borowski (1922), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Josyf Slipyj (1892), Alexius Meinong (1853), Igor Sergeyev (1938), and Vladimir Borovikovsky (1757). After him are Cassandre (1901), Igor Oistrakh (1931), Pacatianus (200), Andrey Razumovsky (1752), Mykhailo Drahomanov (1841), and Abraham Zapruder (1905).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In Ukraine

Among political scientists born in Ukraine, Muhammad Asad ranks 1. 

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