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Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din

1869 - 1948

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Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (or Imam Yahya) (Arabic: يحيى محمد حميد الدين, 18 June 1869 – 17 February 1948) was the first king of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen from 1918 until his assassination in 1948. He became Imam of the Zaydis, a branch of Shia Islam, in 1904 after the death of his father, Muhammad Al-Mansur, and Imam of Yemen in 1918. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din has received more than 272,428 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din is the 5,854th most popular politician (up from 7,616th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Yemen (down from 8th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Yemeni Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din ranks 5,854 out of 19,576. Before him are Mikhail Fradkov, Miguel de la Madrid, Liu Yuan, Archduke Wilhelm of Austria, Norodom Ranariddh, and García Sánchez III of Pamplona. After him are Fernando Collor de Mello, Sheikh Mansur, Æthelberht of Kent, Salome I, Otto Wels, and Xiao Xin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din ranks 49. Before him are Élie Cartan, Else Lasker-Schüler, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, Giulio Douhet, and Hjalmar Söderberg. After him are Liane de Pougy, Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Hans Pfitzner, and Valdemar Poulsen. Among people deceased in 1948, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din ranks 57. Before him are Wolfram Sievers, Viktor Brack, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Feng Yuxiang, Béla Miklós, and Archduke Wilhelm of Austria. After him are Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Egon Kisch, Mitsumasa Yonai, Irmfried Eberl, and Radola Gajda.

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In Yemen

Among people born in Yemen, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din ranks 10 out of 35. Before him are Abdullah ibn Saba' (700), Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (600), Malik al-Ashtar (585), Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (1908), Miqdad ibn Aswad (589), and Rashad al-Alimi (1954). After him are Mukesh Ambani (1957), Muhammad al-Badr (1926), Wahb ibn Munabbih (655), Tawakkol Karman (1979), Ahmad bin Yahya (1891), and Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani (893).

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Among POLITICIANS In Yemen

Among politicians born in Yemen, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din ranks 5. Before him are Ali Abdullah Saleh (1947), Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (1945), Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (600), and Rashad al-Alimi (1954). After him are Muhammad al-Badr (1926), Ahmad bin Yahya (1891), Hussein al-Houthi (1960), Ali Nasir Muhammad (1940), Mohammed Basindawa (1935), Abdullah al-Sallal (1917), and Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (1939).

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