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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr

1935 - 1980

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Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (Arabic: آية الله العظمى السيد محمد باقر الصدر; 1 March 1935 – 9 April 1980), also known as al-Shahīd al-Khāmis (the fifth martyr), was an Iraqi philosopher, and the ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party, born in al-Kadhimiya, Iraq. He was father-in-law to Muqtada al-Sadr, a cousin of Muhammad Sadeq al-Sadr and Imam Musa as-Sadr. His father Haydar al-Sadr was a well-respected high-ranking Shi'a cleric. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr has received more than 358,375 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr is the 1,347th most popular religious figure (up from 6,452nd in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Iraq (down from 171st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.

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  • 360k

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  • 55.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr ranks 1,347 out of 2,238. Before him are João I of Kongo, Karekin II, Henri Estienne, Nikolaj Velimirović, Ankhesenpepi II, and Adam Stefan Sapieha. After him are Medardus, Marc Ouellet, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Josyf Slipyj, Ashkenaz, and Pope Anianus of Alexandria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr ranks 115. Before him are Charles Grodin, Paula Rego, Nikos Sampson, Wang Hongwen, Jerry Fodor, and Mario Camus. After him are Marc Augé, Donald P. Bellisario, Helmut Lachenmann, Diane Ladd, Michael Walzer, and Ján Popluhár. Among people deceased in 1980, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr ranks 85. Before him are Dietrich von Saucken, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Marino Marini, Bert Kaempfert, Josias Braun-Blanquet, and Joy Adamson. After him are Katia Mann, Valko Chervenkov, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Tadao Takayama, Alexander Mach, and Hiroshi Inagaki.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr ranks 192 out of 338. Before him are Al-Hariri of Basra (1054), Ibn Muqla (886), Al-Mustadi (1142), Ashurnasirpal I (-1100), Al-Mustakfi (905), and Aphrahat (280). After him are Samsu-Ditana (-1700), Ayad Allawi (1944), An Shigao (101), Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (1080), Shalmaneser II (-1090), and Qusay Hussein (1966).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iraq

Among religious figures born in Iraq, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr ranks 21. Before him are Haran (null), Ibn Sa'd (784), Ibn Qutaybah (828), Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935), Suhayb ar-Rumi (587), and Abo of Tiflis (756). After him are An Shigao (101), Lipit-Ishtar (-1890), Bashar ibn Burd (714), Dawud al-Zahiri (815), Yitzhak Kaduri (1898), and Emmanuel III Delly (1927).

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