RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Navvab Safavi

1924 - 1956

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Sayyid Mojtaba Mir-Lohi (Persian: سيد مجتبی میرلوحی, 9 October 1924 – 18 January 1956), more commonly known as Navvab Safavi (Persian: نواب صفوی), was an Iranian Shia cleric and founder of the Fada'iyan-e Islam group. He played a role in assassinations of Abdolhossein Hazhir, Haj Ali Razmara and Ahmad Kasravi. On 22 November 1955, after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hosein Ala', Navvab Safavi and some of his followers were arrested. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Navvab Safavi has received more than 158,784 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Navvab Safavi is the 2,199th most popular religious figure, the 324th most popular biography from Iran and the 34th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Navvab Safavi ranks 2,199 out of 3,187. Before him are Michel Garicoïts, Gaëtan Dugas, Pacian, Elisheba, Polycrates of Ephesus, and Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox. After him are Patrick D'Rozario, Ján Chryzostom Korec, Philippe Ouédraogo, Pope Demetrius I of Alexandria, A'annepada, and Peter Martyr Vermigli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Navvab Safavi ranks 235. Before him are Philip Stone, Mutesa II of Buganda, Li Li-hua, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, Colleen Dewhurst, and Alphons Egli. After him are Ján Chryzostom Korec, Ruth Teitelbaum, František Vláčil, Karen Harup, Dodo Abashidze, and György Lázár. Among people deceased in 1956, Navvab Safavi ranks 121. Before him are Elmer Drew Merrill, Helmer Hanssen, Jehanne D'Alcy, Henri Callot, Johannes Jørgensen, and Lewis Terman. After him are Austin Osman Spare, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Willem Hendrik Keesom, Herminio Masantonio, Ostap Vyshnya, and Zoltán Halmay.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Navvab Safavi ranks 324 out of 631. Before him are Abdolkarim Soroush (1945), Sami Yusuf (1980), Mohammad Ali Fardin (1930), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960), and Fatemeh Pahlavi (1928). After him are Jafar Sharif-Emami (1910), Suleiman II of Persia (1714), Al-Nayrizi (865), Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963), Simin Behbahani (1927), and Samad Behrangi (1939).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Navvab Safavi ranks 34. Before him are Morteza Motahhari (1919), Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948), Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935), Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1921), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), and Sadegh Khalkhali (1926). After him are Suleiman II of Persia (1714), Luarsab II of Kartli (1592), Kazim Rashti (1793), Fakhr-un-Nisa (1092), and Reza Hosseini Nassab (1960).

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