SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei

1899 - 1992

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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei (Arabic: أبو القاسم الموسوي الخوئي; AH-boo al KAH-sim KHOO-ee) November 19, 1899 – August 8, 1992) was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja'. Khoei is considered one of the most influential twelver scholars. After the death of Muhsin al-Hakim in 1970, he became the spiritual leader of much of the Shia world until his death in 1992. He was succeeded briefly by Abd al-A'la al-Sabziwari, until his death in 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei is the 279th most popular social activist (down from 207th in 2019), the 236th most popular biography from Iran (down from 189th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Iranian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 279 out of 840. Before him are Diana Budisavljević, Carlo Cafiero, Udham Singh, David Frankfurter, Eglantyne Jebb, and Wat Tyler. After him are Itagaki Taisuke, Serge Klarsfeld, Sultan al-Atrash, Ryszard Siwiec, Li Hongzhi, and Aruna Shanbaug case.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 120. Before him are Peter Wessel Zapffe, Marcel Dalio, Udham Singh, Noël Coward, Oscar Zariski, and Norman Taurog. After him are Café Filho, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Helge Ingstad, Max Simon, Jimmie Angel, and Maria Yudina. Among people deceased in 1992, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 104. Before him are Seichō Matsumoto, Ajahn Chah, Néstor Almendros, Wang Hongwen, Jean Dieudonné, and Allen Newell. After him are Fritz Leiber, Alex Haley, Tevfik Esenç, Jim Garrison, Arthur Cronquist, and František Tomášek.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 236 out of 631. Before him are Amir Kabir (1807), Ibn al-Faqih (null), Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (1919), Masawaiyh (777), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), and Asadi Tusi (999). After him are Shapur IV (null), Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (1892), Phraates I (-190), Shams Pahlavi (1917), Al-Sarakhsi (1009), and Ibn Khuzayma (838).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Iran

Among social activists born in Iran, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei ranks 5. Before him are Shirin Ebadi (1947), Babak Khorramdin (798), Musa al-Sadr (1928), and Narges Mohammadi (1972). After him are Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963), Massoud Rajavi (1948), Mina Ahadi (1956), Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani (1967), Maryam Namazie (1966), and Zahra Eshraghi (1964).

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