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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Rabban Bar Sauma

1220 - 1294

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Rabban Bar Ṣawma (Syriac language: ܪܒܢ ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ, [rɑbbɑn bɑrsˤɑwma]; c. 1220 – January 1294), also known as Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma (simplified Chinese: 拉班·扫马; traditional Chinese: 拉賓掃務瑪; pinyin: lābīn sǎowùmǎ), was a Uyghur or Ongud monk turned diplomat of the "Nestorian" Church of the East in China. He is known for embarking on a pilgrimage from Yuan China to Jerusalem with one of his students, Rabban Markos. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rabban Bar Sauma has received more than 265,198 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Rabban Bar Sauma is the 1,448th most popular religious figure (down from 1,151st in 2019), the 566th most popular biography from China (down from 471st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Chinese Religious Figure.

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  • 270k

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  • 54.46

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Rabban Bar Sauma ranks 1,448 out of 2,238Before him are Judoc, Beniamino Stella, Hilarion of Kiev, Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria, Vinko Puljić, and Leo Joseph Suenens. After him are Giovanni Benelli, Giovanni Angelo Becciu, Joseph Zen, Albert Vanhoye, Jacques de Vitry, and Javier Echevarría Rodríguez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1220, Rabban Bar Sauma ranks 14Before him are Alphonse, Count of Poitiers, Ugolino della Gherardesca, Traidenis, Emperor Go-Saga, Enzo of Sardinia, and Jalal-ud-din Khalji. After him are Joan, Countess of Toulouse, Joan, Countess of Ponthieu, Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia, and George Mouzalon. Among people deceased in 1294, Rabban Bar Sauma ranks 5Before him are Kublai Khan, Louis II, Duke of Bavaria, Brunetto Latini, and John I, Duke of Brabant. After him is Dmitry of Pereslavl.

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In China

Among people born in China, Rabban Bar Sauma ranks 566 out of 1,392Before him are Sengcan (529), Ho Feng-Shan (1901), Li Zhanshu (1950), Konstantin Rodzaevsky (1907), Dong Yuan (932), and Xia Gui (1195). After him are Ding Ruchang (1836), Edward Yang (1947), Joseph Zen (1932), Zhang Zai (1020), Kang Sheng (1898), and Zheng Zhilong (1604).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In China

Among religious figures born in China, Rabban Bar Sauma ranks 9Before him are Huineng (638), Je Tsongkhapa (1357), Bao Xishun (1951), 11th Dalai Lama (1838), Shaohao (null), and Sengcan (529). After him are Joseph Zen (1932), Jianzhen (688), Mang of Xia (null), Gan Ji (101), Yijing (635), and Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei (1901).