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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, 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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  • 840k

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  • 55.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Muhammad Asad ranks 17 out of 29Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Muhammad Asad ranks 98Before 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 76Before 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.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Muhammad Asad ranks 269 out of 1,083Before 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).

Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In Ukraine

Among political scientists born in Ukraine, Muhammad Asad ranks 1