WRITER

Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti

1929 - 2013

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Muhammad Said Ramadan Al-Bouti (Arabic: مُحَمَّد سَعِيد رَمَضَان ٱلْبُوطِي, romanized: Muḥammad Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī) (1929 – 21 March 2013) was a renowned Syrian Sunni Muslim scholar, writer and professor, where he was vice dean in the Damascus University and served as the imam of the Umayyad Mosque. Al-Bouti wrote more than sixty books on Islamic law and theology. He was a leading figure of Islamic neo-traditionalism which adhered to the four schools of thought in Sunni Islam and the orthodox Ash'arite creed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti has received more than 234,167 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti is the 1,602nd most popular writer (down from 1,568th in 2019), the 463rd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 538th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti ranks 1,602 out of 7,302. Before him are Mário de Andrade, Rafael Sabatini, Robert Faurisson, Jan Guillou, David Albahari, and Charles Paul de Kock. After him are Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Robert Desnos, Dick Bruna, Philip José Farmer, Petar Kočić, and Eileen Chang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti ranks 129. Before him are Don Murray, Filaret, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Whitey Bulger, Fred Phelps, and Robert Faurisson. After him are Rafael Eitan, Édouard Balladur, Michael Michai Kitbunchu, Gabriel Urgebadze, Ira Levin, and Kateb Yacine. Among people deceased in 2013, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti ranks 91. Before him are Jacques Vergès, Abdul Rahim Hatif, Robert Fogel, José Froilán González, Otto Sander, and Masao Uchino. After him are James Avery, Sergei Belov, Eleanor Parker, Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, Nguyễn Khánh, and Otfried Preußler.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti ranks 463 out of 1,347. Before him are Namık Kemal (1840), Nizamüddin Ahmed Pasha (1281), Saint Mercurius (224), Kemal Reis (1451), Yaşar Kemal (1923), and Şah Sultan (1544). After him are Isaac of Armenia (338), Irene Palaiologina of Trebizond (1315), Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873), Demetrios I of Constantinople (1914), Eutychius of Constantinople (512), and Manuel I of Trebizond (1218).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti ranks 43. Before him are Hieronymus of Cardia (-390), George of Pisidia (580), Adnan Oktar (1956), Alexander Polyhistor (-100), Namık Kemal (1840), and Yaşar Kemal (1923). After him are Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873), Adamantios Korais (1748), Oribasius (325), Nicander (-250), Quintus Smyrnaeus (400), and Eustathius of Thessalonica (1101).

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