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Umar

585 - 644

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Umar ibn al-Khattab (Arabic: عُمَر بْن ٱلْخَطَّاب, romanized: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb; c. 582/583 – 644), also spelled Omar, was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634, when he succeeded Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) as the second caliph, until his assassination in 644. Umar was a senior companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Umar initially opposed Muhammad, who was his distant Qurayshite kinsman and later became his son-in-law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Umar has received more than 6,410,084 page views. His biography is available in 127 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 121 in 2019). Umar is the 34th most popular politician (up from 38th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Saudi Arabia and the most popular Saudi Arabian Politician.

Umar is most famous for being the second caliph of the Islamic empire.

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  • 6.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 84.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 127

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Umar ranks 34 out of 19,576. Before him are Cicero, Huang Xianfan, Constantine the Great, Winston Churchill, Attila, and Osman I. After him are Maria Theresa, Richard III of England, Abraham Lincoln, Qin Shi Huang, Hillary Clinton, and Saddam Hussein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 585, Umar ranks 1. After him are Pope Honorius I, Pepin of Landen, Theudebert II, Malik al-Ashtar, and Garibald II of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 644, Umar ranks 1. After him are Piruz Nahavandi, and Paulinus of York.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Umar ranks 2 out of 354. Before him are Muhammad (570). After him are Fatimah (604), Ali (601), Uthman (574), Abu Bakr (573), Husayn ibn Ali (626), Khalid ibn al-Walid (592), Aisha (605), Khadija bint Khuwaylid (556), Osama bin Laden (1957), and Salman of Saudi Arabia (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In Saudi Arabia

Among politicians born in Saudi Arabia, Umar ranks 1. After him are Uthman (574), Salman of Saudi Arabia (1935), Muawiyah I (603), Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (1924), Ibn Saud (1875), Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib (570), Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (646), Zubayr ibn al-Awam (594), Abū Lahab (549), Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah (582), and Abu Sufyan ibn Harb (580).

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