RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Sheikh Said

1864 - 1925

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Sheikh Said (Kurdish: شێخ سەید, romanized: Şêx Seîd; 1865 – 29 June 1925) was a Zaza Kurd religious leader, one of the leading sheikhs of the Naqshbandi-Khalidiyya and the head of the Sheikh Said rebellion. He was born in 1865 in Palu to an influential family from the Naqshbandi order, where his grandfather was an influential sheikh. Sheikh Said studied religious sciences at the madrasa led by his father Sheikh Mahmud Fevzi as well from several Islamic scholars in the region. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sheikh Said has received more than 179,849 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sheikh Said is the 1,366th most popular religious figure (up from 1,456th in 2019), the 552nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 695th in 2019) and the 86th most popular Religious Figure.

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  • 180k

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  • 56.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Sheikh Said ranks 1,366 out of 3,187. Before him are Catherine Eddowes, Lubomyr Husar, Giuseppe Siri, Antipope Callixtus III, Oswald of Northumbria, and Raymond Leo Burke. After him are Victor Maurus, Benedict Joseph Labre, Mayta Cápac, Jair, Barsanuphius, and Agathius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Sheikh Said ranks 64. Before him are Hermann Weingärtner, Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Soh Jaipil, Isa Boletini, Carl Correns, and William, Prince of Hohenzollern. After him are Nikolay Chkheidze, Robert Grant Aitken, Wilhelm Souchon, Alejandro Lerroux, Ante Trumbić, and Apolinario Mabini. Among people deceased in 1925, Sheikh Said ranks 60. Before him are Moritz Moszkowski, Cyril Genik, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Thomas R. Marshall, Francis Darwin, and Sidney Reilly. After him are Princess Françoise of Orléans, Chittaranjan Das, Louis Feuillade, Hidesaburō Ueno, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, and Anna Schäffer.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Sheikh Said ranks 552 out of 1,347. Before him are Ahmed Muhtar Pasha (1839), Prusias II of Bithynia (-300), Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir (1878), Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin (1857), Sittişah Hatun (1435), and Arshile Gorky (1904). After him are Agathius (300), Ivan Isakov (1894), Crantor (-400), Devlet Bahçeli (1948), Darío Moreno (1921), and Artaphernes (-600).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Türkiye

Among religious figures born in Türkiye, Sheikh Said ranks 86. Before him are Amphilochius of Iconium (339), Archippus (50), Theodosius the Cenobiarch (424), Akile Hatun (1607), Macrina the Younger (324), and Marina the Monk (715). After him are Agathius (300), Severus of Antioch (456), Modestus of Jerusalem (537), Kadi Burhan al-Din (1345), Thaddeus of Edessa (100), and Eunomius of Cyzicus (335).

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