1900 - 1992
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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Asad has received more than 838,894 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Muhammad Asad is the 17th most popular political scientist (up from 19th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 240th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Political Scientist.
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Among political scientists, Muhammad Asad ranks 17 out of 29. Before him are Johan Galtung, Maurice Duverger, Gene Sharp, Joseph Nye, Aleksandr Dugin, and David Easton. After him are Robert D. Putnam, Arend Lijphart, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, John Mearsheimer, Leonard Hobhouse, and William Graham Sumner.
1930 - 2024
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 11
1917 - 2014
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 12
1928 - 2018
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 13
1937 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 14
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 15
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 16
1900 - 1992
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 17
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 18
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 19
1772 - 1840
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 20
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 21
1864 - 1929
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 22
1840 - 1910
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1900, Muhammad Asad ranks 98. Before him are Leonardo Conti, Karin Boye, Kiyoo Kanda, Leslie White, George Uhlenbeck, and Herbert Blumer. After him are Duy Tân, Miguel Alemán Valdés, Valko Chervenkov, Zhang Wentian, Violet Brown, and Hassan Fathy. Among people deceased in 1992, Muhammad Asad ranks 76. Before him are Banine, Deng Yingchao, Jânio Quadros, Koča Popović, Yang Kyoungjong, and Alex Haley. After him are Arpad Elo, Wang Hongwen, Camarón de la Isla, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Giorgio Perlasca, and Gavriil Ilizarov.
1900 - 1945
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 92
1900 - 1941
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 93
1900 - 1970
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 94
1900 - 1971
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 95
1900 - 1988
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 96
1900 - 1987
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 97
1900 - 1992
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 98
1900 - 1945
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 99
1900 - 1983
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 100
1900 - 1980
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 101
1900 - 1976
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 102
1900 - 2017
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 103
1900 - 1989
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 104
1905 - 1992
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 70
1904 - 1992
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 71
1917 - 1992
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 72
1908 - 1992
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 73
1920 - 1992
HPI: 55.84
Rank: 74
1921 - 1992
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 75
1900 - 1992
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 76
1903 - 1992
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 77
1935 - 1992
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 78
1950 - 1992
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 79
1908 - 1992
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 80
1910 - 1992
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 81
1921 - 1992
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 82
Among people born in Ukraine, Muhammad Asad ranks 269 out of 1,083. Before him are Ivan Poddubny (1871), Igor Sergeyev (1938), Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Vladimir Gelfand (1923), and Denys Shmyhal (1975). After him are Maurycy Gottlieb (1856), Valentin Bondarenko (1937), Moisei Uritsky (1873), Zbigniew Cybulski (1927), Dmitry Manuilsky (1883), and Sergei Winogradsky (1856).
1871 - 1949
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 263
1938 - 2006
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 264
1104 - 1146
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 265
1907 - 1989
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 266
1923 - 1983
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 267
1975 - Present
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 268
1900 - 1992
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 269
1856 - 1879
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 270
1937 - 1961
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 271
1873 - 1918
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 272
1927 - 1967
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 273
1883 - 1959
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 274
1856 - 1953
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 275
Among political scientists born in Ukraine, Muhammad Asad ranks 1.