SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Hassan al-Banna

1906 - 1949

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Hassan Ahmed Abd al-Rahman Muhammed al-Banna (Arabic: حسن أحمد عبد الرحمن محمد البنا; 14 October 1906 – 12 February 1949), known as Hassan al-Banna (Arabic: حسن البنا), was an Egyptian schoolteacher and Imam, best known for founding the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest and most influential global Islamist movements, and for his death at the hands of the Egyptian government. Al-Banna's writings marked a turning-point in Islamic intellectual history by presenting a distinct and all-encompassing modern ideology based on Islam. Al-Banna considered Islam to be a comprehensive system of life, with the Quran and Sunnah as the only acceptable constitution. He called for Islamization of the state, the economy, and society. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hassan al-Banna is the 54th most popular social activist (down from 31st in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 59th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Social Activist.

Hassan al-Banna is most famous for being the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Hassan al-Banna ranks 54 out of 840. Before him are Sophie Scholl, Emma Goldman, Emmeline Pankhurst, Sakamoto Ryōma, Pheidippides, and Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī. After him are Harriet Tubman, Witold Pilecki, Yemelyan Pugachev, Frantz Fanon, Dominique Pire, and Syed Ahmad Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Hassan al-Banna ranks 34. Before him are Léopold Sédar Senghor, Sayyid Qutb, Giuseppe Farina, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ilse Koch, and Sergei Korolev. After him are Hermann Fegelein, Léon Degrelle, Ed Gein, Josef Kramer, Clyde Tombaugh, and Marcelo Caetano. Among people deceased in 1949, Hassan al-Banna ranks 11. Before him are Georgi Dimitrov, Edward Thorndike, Leonard Bloomfield, Kim Jong-suk, Margaret Mitchell, and Friedrich Bergius. After him are James Ensor, August Krogh, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, Charles Ponzi, Klaus Mann, and Axel Munthe.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Hassan al-Banna ranks 87 out of 642. Before him are Mohamed ElBaradei (1942), Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (985), Ptolemy Keraunos (-318), Pappus of Alexandria (290), Shepseskare (-2450), and Cleopatra V of Egypt (-100). After him are Djedefre (-2600), Sosigenes of Alexandria (-80), Al-Kamil (1177), Eric Hobsbawm (1917), Athenaeus (200), and Psamtik I (-700).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Egypt

Among social activists born in Egypt, Hassan al-Banna ranks 1. After him are Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927), Huda Sha'arawi (1879), Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872), Maggie Gobran (1949), Asmaa Mahfouz (1985), Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (1991), Sarah Hegazi (1989), and Nadeen Ashraf (1998).

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