RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mullah Krekar

1956 - Today

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Najmadin Vahid Faraj Ahmad (Kurdish: نەجمەدین وەحید فەرەج ئەحمەد, July 7, 1956), better known as Mullah Krekar (Kurdish: مه‌لا کرێکار), is an Iraqi Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar and militant who was the founder and former leader of Islamist militant group Ansar al-Islam. He is currently serving a prison sentence in Italy, after having been extradited from Norway in 2020. He came to Norway as a refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mullah Krekar has received more than 255,708 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mullah Krekar is the 2,571st most popular religious figure (down from 2,430th in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 297th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mullah Krekar ranks 2,571 out of 3,187. Before him are Severino Poletto, Jakub Wujek, László Kovács, Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Eugenio Dal Corso, and Anton Josef Gruscha. After him are Jan Pieter Schotte, Dositheus II of Jerusalem, Domenico Agostini, Mother Angelica, Pope Agrippinus of Alexandria, and Reza Hosseini Nassab.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Mullah Krekar ranks 280. Before him are Eike Batista, Gary Ross, Justin Welby, Ilona Slupianek, Nigel Kennedy, and Volodymyr Lytvyn. After him are Carlo Urbani, Rodolfo Rodríguez, Ulrike Meyfarth, Edson Tavares, Ernie Brandts, and Rainer Woelki.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Mullah Krekar ranks 315 out of 384. Before him are Asharid-apal-Ekur (-1200), En-anna-tum I (-2500), Ninurta-tukulti-Ashur (-1200), Akurgal (-2600), Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (1952), and Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (1948). After him are Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750), Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (1931), David Sassoon (1792), Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (1967), Avi Shlaim (1945), and Shlomo Hillel (1923).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iraq

Among religious figures born in Iraq, Mullah Krekar ranks 35. Before him are Al-Baqillani (950), Emmanuel III Delly (1927), Yitzhak Kaduri (1898), Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni (1879), Dinkha IV (1935), and Louis Raphaël I Sako (1948). After him are Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (1931), Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (1980), Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942), Sajida al-Rishawi (1970), and Bashar Warda (1969).

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