SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mukhtar al-Thaqafi

622 - 687

Mukhtar al-Thaqafi

Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi (Arabic: الْمُخْتَار ٱبْن أَبِي عُبَيْد الثَّقَفِيّ, romanized: al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī; c. 622 – 3 April 687) was a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq for eighteen months during the Second Fitna. Born in Ta'if, Mukhtar moved to Iraq at a young age and grew up in Kufa. Following the death of Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at the hands of the Umayyad army in the Battle of Karbala in 680, he allied with the rival caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca, but the alliance was short-lived. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi has received more than 1,131,435 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Mukhtar al-Thaqafi is the 63rd most popular social activist (down from 55th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 69th in 2019) and the most popular Saudi Arabian Social Activist.

Mukhtar al-Thaqafi is most famous for his revolt against the Umayyad caliphate in the year 735.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi ranks 63 out of 840. Before him are Túpac Amaru II, Babak Khorramdin, Stenka Razin, Alexei Navalny, Mustafa Barzani, and Thích Quảng Đức. After him are José Rizal, Witold Pilecki, Camilo Cienfuegos, Beatrice Cenci, Bhagat Singh, and Jenny von Westphalen.

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Rank: 63
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 622, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi ranks 1. After him are Uqba ibn Nafi, Tulga, and Mizizios. Among people deceased in 687, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi ranks 2. Before him is Pope Conon. After him are Erwig, and Cuthbert.