RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Sabbatai Zevi

1626 - 1676

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Sabbatai Zevi (August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was an Ottoman Jewish mystic, and ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). His family origins may have been Ashkenazi or Spanish. Active throughout the Ottoman Empire, Zevi claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah and founded the Sabbatean movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sabbatai Zevi has received more than 1,401,981 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Sabbatai Zevi is the 372nd most popular religious figure (down from 333rd in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 128th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Turkish Religious Figure.

Sabbatai Zevi was most famous for his conversion to Islam in 1666.

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 372 out of 3,187. Before him are Bahá'u'lláh, Pope Soter, Pope Clement III, Pope Sergius I, James, son of Alphaeus, and Pope Anicetus. After him are Pope Nicholas II, Parascheva of the Balkans, Alcuin, Muhammad al-Baqir, Pope Martin I, and Pope Fabian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1626, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 2. Before him is Christina, Queen of Sweden. After him are Jan Steen, Richard Cromwell, William II, Prince of Orange, Francesco Redi, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, Giovanni Legrenzi, Louis Couperin, Bada Shanren, and John Aubrey. Among people deceased in 1676, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement X, and Alexis of Russia. After him are Michiel de Ruyter, Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, Francesco Cavalli, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Madame de Brinvilliers, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, and Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 124 out of 1,347. Before him are Photios I of Constantinople (900), Kara Mustafa Pasha (1634), Michael III (840), John I Tzimiskes (925), Artemisia I of Caria (-500), and Mesrop Mashtots (361). After him are Parascheva of the Balkans (1000), Constans II (630), Andronikos II Palaiologos (1259), Manuel II Palaiologos (1350), Isaac II Angelos (1155), and Abdullah Gül (1950).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Türkiye

Among religious figures born in Türkiye, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 17. Before him are Ephrem the Syrian (306), Ignatius of Antioch (35), Irenaeus (130), Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940), Gregory of Nyssa (335), and Photios I of Constantinople (900). After him are Parascheva of the Balkans (1000), Simeon Stylites (389), Fethullah Gülen (1941), Saint Nino (296), Thecla (100), and Marcion of Sinope (85).

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