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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sheikh Said

1864 - 1925

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Sheikh Said of Piran (Kurdish: Şêx Seîd Pîrani, 1865 – June 29, 1925) was a Kurdish sheikh, the main leader of the Sheikh Said rebellion and a Sheikh of the Naqshbandi order.He was born in 1865 in Palu to an influential family from the Naqshbandi order. He had five brothers. Still in his childhood, the family settled to Hınıs, Erzurum, where his grandfather was an influential Sheikh. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sheikh Said has received more than 131,982 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sheikh Said is the 245th most popular social activist, the 697th most popular biography from Turkey and the 2nd most popular Turkish Social Activist.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sheikh Said ranks 245 out of 538Before him are Kate Sheppard, Juliana of Stolberg, Vera Figner, David Riazanov, Jan Gotlib Bloch, and Tuvia Bielski. After him are Coretta Scott King, Marsha P. Johnson, Itagaki Taisuke, Alexander Antonov, Ludolf von Alvensleben, and Feodosia Morozova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Sheikh Said ranks 73Before him are Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ion I. C. Brătianu, Alexander Gretchaninov, Ante Trumbić, Nikolay Chkheidze, and Roger Casement. After him are Robert Grant Aitken, Alejandro Lerroux, Stefan Żeromski, Đồng Khánh, Adolf Wölfli, and Ferdinand Zecca. Among people deceased in 1925, Sheikh Said ranks 63Before him are Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Anna Schäffer, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, Thomas R. Marshall, Princess Françoise of Orléans, and John French, 1st Earl of Ypres. After him are Johan August Brinell, Louis Feuillade, Myer Prinstein, Stefan Żeromski, Joel Hastings Metcalf, and Nikolai Golitsyn.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Sheikh Said ranks 697 out of 1,301Before him are Mehmed Orhan (1909), Cleitarchus (-400), Kâzım Karabekir (1882), Theodore I Palaiologos (1355), Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901), and Thaddeus of Edessa (100). After him are Joseph Genesius (1000), Damat Ferid Pasha (1853), Phlegon of Tralles (200), Stephen I of Constantinople (867), Darío Moreno (1921), and Zein Al-Sharaf Talal (1916).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Turkey

Among social activists born in Turkey, Sheikh Said ranks 2Before him are Hrant Dink (1954). After him are Deniz Gezmiş (1947), İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1949), Sakine Cansız (1958), Aslı Erdoğan (1967), Eren Keskin (1959), Mari Beyleryan (1877), Murder of Özgecan Aslan (1995), Saadet Özkan (1978), and Hande Kader (1993).