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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mullah Krekar

1956 - Today

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Najmudin Vahid Faraj Ahmed (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 238,796 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Mullah Krekar is the 2,447th most popular religious figure, the 299th most popular biography from Iraq and the 32nd most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.

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  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mullah Krekar ranks 2,447 out of 2,238Before him are Anton Josef Gruscha, Carlo Acutis, Kazimierz Nycz, Stanisław Wielgus, William Wakefield Baum, and Symeon of Durham. After him are José María Caro Rodríguez, Stanisław Nagy, Jean-Claude Turcotte, José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Anthony Peter Khoraish, and Mario Francesco Pompedda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Mullah Krekar ranks 301Before him are Bruno Giordano, Ilona Slupianek, Gregorio Manzano, Ivan Nielsen, Héctor Rebaque, and Richard Tyson. After him are Ilie Balaci, Sergei Avdeyev, Steve Barron, Koffi Olomide, Roberto Regazzi, and Dariusz Wolski.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Mullah Krekar ranks 299 out of 338Before him are Hussein Saeed (1958), Ali Larijani (1957), Ashur-rim-nisheshu (-1490), Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (1948), Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (1952), and Shlomo Hillel (1923). After him are Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942), Jalal Dabagh (1939), Ramzi Yousef (1968), Ahmed Radhi (1964), Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi (1954), and Jafar Salmasi (1918).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iraq

Among religious figures born in Iraq, Mullah Krekar ranks 32Before him are Yitzhak Kaduri (1898), Emmanuel III Delly (1927), Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni (1879), Dinkha IV (1935), Louis Raphaël I Sako (1948), and Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (1931). After him are Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942), Sajida al-Rishawi (1970), and Bashar Warda (1969).