RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Abu Hanifa

698 - 767

Abu Hanifa

Abu Hanifa (Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized: Abū Ḥanīfa; September 699 CE – 767 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, ascetic, and eponym of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence, which remains the most widely practiced to this day. His school predominates in Central and South Asia, Turkey, Africa, the Balkans, Russia, and some parts of the Arab world. Sources disagree on exactly where he was born, whether in Kufa (held by the majority), Kabul, Anbar, Nasa or Termez. Abu Hanifa traveled to the Hejaz region of Arabia in his youth, where he studied in the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abu Hanifa is the 75th most popular religious figure (down from 34th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 8th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.

Abu Hanifa is most famous for being the founder of the Hanafi school of law, one of the four schools of Sunni Islam.

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Among religious figures, Abu Hanifa ranks 75 out of 3,187. Before him are Ignatius of Loyola, Anthony the Great, Pope Urban VIII, Mary Magdalene, Husayn ibn Ali, and Pope Pius VI. After him are Isaiah, Pope Innocent III, Pope Pius III, Eusebius, Pope Benedict XIV, and 14th Dalai Lama.

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Among people born in 698, Abu Hanifa ranks 1. After him are Dagobert III, Abe no Nakamaro, and Wang Changling. Among people deceased in 767, Abu Hanifa ranks 1. After him are Pope Paul I, Ibn Ishaq, and Toktu of Bulgaria.