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Omar Abdel-Rahman

1938 - 2017

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Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman (Arabic: عمر عبد الرحمن), (ʾUmar ʾAbd ar-Raḥmān; 3 May 1938 – 18 February 2017), commonly known in the United States as "The Blind Sheikh", was a blind Egyptian Islamist militant who served a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Butner near Butner, North Carolina, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of seditious conspiracy in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Omar Abdel-Rahman has received more than 1,001,090 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Omar Abdel-Rahman is the 116th most popular extremist (up from 123rd in 2019), the 315th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 309th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Egyptian Extremist.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 116 out of 283. Before him are Eugen Weidmann, Dokka Umarov, Yigal Amir, Joachim Kroll, Dennis Nilsen, and Kōzō Okamoto. After him are Sante Geronimo Caserio, Delphine LaLaurie, Aslan Usoyan, Frank Nitti, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 146. Before him are Jesús María Pereda, Wu Yi, Bernadette Lafont, Philippe Nahon, David Lane, and Paul Martin. After him are Willy Claes, Angelo Amato, Aslan Abashidze, Mohammed Gammoudi, Lill-Babs, and Amfilohije Radović. Among people deceased in 2017, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 124. Before him are Azzedine Alaïa, Brian Aldiss, Shadia, Robert James Waller, Lubomyr Husar, and Jerry Fodor. After him are Tsutomu Hata, Igor Shafarevich, Luis Bacalov, Lyudmila Chernykh, Pierre Henry, and Violet Brown.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 315 out of 642. Before him are Pope Anianus of Alexandria (100), Soad Hosny (1943), Pope Avilius of Alexandria (100), Nepherites I (-490), Anastasius Sinaita (630), and Setepenre (-1400). After him are Barsanuphius (401), Takelot III (-800), Anatolius of Constantinople (301), Leila Mourad (1918), Carpocrates (100), and Ibn Taghribirdi (1410).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Egypt

Among extremists born in Egypt, Omar Abdel-Rahman ranks 2. Before him are Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951). After him are Saif al-Adel (1960), Mohamed Atta (1968), and Abu Ayyub al-Masri (1968).

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