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Sufi Abu Taleb

1925 - 2008

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Sufi Abu Taleb (Arabic: صوفي أبو طالب, romanized: Ṣūfī Abū Ṭālib; January 27, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an Egyptian politician. He served as Speaker of the People's Assembly from 1978 to 1983 and, following the assassination of Anwar Sadat on 6 October 1981, assumed the duties of acting head of state for eight days per the Egyptian Constitution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sufi Abu Taleb has received more than 352,998 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Sufi Abu Taleb is the 4,706th most popular politician (up from 7,243rd in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 296th in 2019) and the 109th most popular Egyptian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sufi Abu Taleb ranks 4,706 out of 19,576Before him are Vikramaditya, Abbas Mirza, Traidenis, Lajos Batthyány, Gerberga of Saxony, and Mirian III of Iberia. After him are Victor Klemperer, Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine, Victorinus, Kalākaua, Emperor Yūryaku, and Gnassingbé Eyadéma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Sufi Abu Taleb ranks 86Before him are Michel de Certeau, Hal Holbrook, Joshua Lederberg, Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Harry Harrison, and Gabriele Ferzetti. After him are Paul Greengard, Willi Herold, Bill Haley, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Nicolai Gedda, and Dettmar Cramer. Among people deceased in 2008, Sufi Abu Taleb ranks 56Before him are Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Dorothy Vaughan, Horst Tappert, Tassos Papadopoulos, Joshua Lederberg, and Rajko Mitić. After him are Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Henri Cartan, Jerry Reed, Mark Felt, Youssef Chahine, and Muslim Magomayev.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Sufi Abu Taleb ranks 228 out of 642Before him are Cosmas Indicopleustes (600), Valentinus (100), Herihor (-1200), John Tristan, Count of Valois (1250), Yuya (-1500), and Al-Mustansir Billah (1029). After him are Ahmed Aboul Gheit (1942), Meketaten (-1348), Jawhar (911), Amun-her-khepeshef (-1300), Prince Rahotep (-2700), and An-Nasir Muhammad (1285).

Among POLITICIANS In Egypt

Among politicians born in Egypt, Sufi Abu Taleb ranks 109Before him are Iry-Hor (-3101), Al-Muazzam Turanshah (1250), Herihor (-1200), John Tristan, Count of Valois (1250), Yuya (-1500), and Al-Mustansir Billah (1029). After him are Ahmed Aboul Gheit (1942), Prince Rahotep (-2700), An-Nasir Muhammad (1285), Omar Suleiman (1936), Neferure (-1500), and Shoshenq II (-1000).