PHILOSOPHER

Shah Waliullah Dehlawi

1703 - 1762

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Qutb ud-Din Ahmad ibn ʿAbd-ur-Rahim al-ʿUmari ad-Dehlawi (Arabic: قطب الدين أحمد بن عبد الرحيم العمري الدهلوي, romanized: Quṭb ad-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm al-ʿUmarī ad-Dehlawī‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic Sunni scholar and Sufi of the Naqshbandi order, who is seen by his followers as a renewer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi has received more than 1,238,857 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Shah Waliullah Dehlawi is the 579th most popular philosopher (down from 535th in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from India (down from 168th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 579 out of 1,267. Before him are Andreas Karlstadt, Peter the Iberian, Charles W. Morris, Cesare Ripa, Johann Bernhard Basedow, and Ludwig Büchner. After him are Conrad Celtes, Thiruvalluvar, Kanada, Alcidamas, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Johann Christoph Gottsched.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 6. Before him are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Marie Leszczyńska, François Boucher, John Wesley, and Louis, Duke of Orléans. After him are Jonathan Edwards, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Johann Gottlieb Graun, and Aleksei Chirikov. Among people deceased in 1762, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 12. Before him are Crown Prince Sado, James Bradley, Emperor Momozono, Francesco Geminiani, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. After him are Jean Calas, Tobias Mayer, Françoise-Louise de Warens, Teimuraz II of Kakheti, Dorothea Erxleben, and Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 200 out of 1,861. Before him are Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Amrish Puri (1932), Hema Malini (1948), Andal (800), Kuvempu (1904), and Pushyamitra Shunga (-300). After him are Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924), Thiruvalluvar (350), Feroze Gandhi (1912), Ram Narayan (1927), Guru Angad (1504), and Parshvanatha (-872).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 26. Before him are Ravidas (1450), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), Shantideva (685), and Narayana Guru (1855). After him are Thiruvalluvar (350), Dignāga (480), Chandrakirti (600), Eknath (1533), Hemachandra (1089), and Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897).

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