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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni

864 - 941

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Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kulaynī ar-Rāzī (Persian: محمد بن یعقوب بن اسحاق کلینی رازی; Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد ٱبْن يَعْقُوب ٱبْن إِسْحَاق ٱلْكُلَيْنِيّ ٱلرَّازِيّ; c. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni has received more than 195,949 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni is the 1,143rd most popular religious figure (down from 1,068th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Iran (down from 167th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

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  • 200k

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni ranks 1,143 out of 2,238Before him are Teobaldo Boccapecci, Arnold Janssen, Saint Afra, Umm Ayman, Catherine Eddowes, and Bechara Boutros al-Rahi. After him are Eugène Tisserant, Nicholas Mystikos, Simon of Trent, Abu Darda, Fatimah bint Musa, and Pavle, Serbian Patriarch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 864, Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni ranks 2Before him is Simeon I of Bulgaria. After him is Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun. Among people deceased in 941, Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni ranks 3Before him are Muhammad al-Mahdi and Rudaki. After him are Jayavarman IV and Olaf Guthfrithson.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni ranks 176 out of 528Before him are Abbas Mirza (1789), Shahrokh Shah (1734), Amytis of Media (-630), Vologases III of Parthia (100), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (1942), and Shaykh Tusi (995). After him are 'Adud al-Dawla (936), Apama (-400), Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), Táhirih (1817), Sinatruces of Parthia (-157), and Mehdi Bazargan (1907).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni ranks 21Before him are Al-Juwayni (1028), Anastasius of Persia (550), Al-Bayhaqi (994), Sufyan al-Thawri (716), Ibn Babawayh (918), and Shaykh Tusi (995). After him are Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (933), Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi (1627), Ibn Khuzayma (838), Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi (1875), Aga Khan II (1830), and Morteza Motahhari (1919).