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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mukhtar al-Thaqafi

622 - 687

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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 1,016,557 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mukhtar al-Thaqafi is the 55th most popular social activist (up from 64th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (up from 78th 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 55 out of 538Before him are Shirin Ebadi, Babak Khorramdin, Alexey Stakhanov, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Witold Pilecki, and Harriet Tubman. After him are Camilo Cienfuegos, Toussaint Louverture, Dominique Pire, Túpac Amaru II, Anneliese Michel, and Widukind.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi ranks 69 out of 251Before him are Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad (603), Amr ibn al-As (580), Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (674), Abdullah ibn Umar (610), Ja'far ibn Abi Talib (589), and Anas ibn Malik (612). After him are Sumayyah bint Khabbat (550), Abdullah ibn Masud (600), Ramla bint Abi Sufyan (594), Ammar ibn Yasir (570), Muadh ibn Jabal (600), and Hasan al-Askari (846).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Saudi Arabia

Among social activists born in Saudi Arabia, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi ranks 1After him are Nimr al-Nimr (1959), Loujain al-Hathloul (1989), and Samar Badawi (1981).