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Ibn Warraq

1946 - Today

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Ibn Warraq (born 1946) is the pen name of an anonymous author critical of Islam. He is the founder of the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society and used to be a senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry, focusing on Quranic criticism. Warraq is the vice-president of the World Encounter Institute. Warraq has written historiographies of the early centuries of the Islamic timeline and has published works which question mainstream conceptions of the period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn Warraq is the 2,815th most popular writer (up from 3,315th in 2019), the 383rd most popular biography from India (up from 421st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Ibn Warraq ranks 2,815 out of 7,302. Before him are Vilhelm Moberg, Mastoureh Ardalan, Dritëro Agolli, Bernardo Atxaga, Elio Vittorini, and Koriun. After him are Frank McCourt, Nodira, Colleen Hoover, Pentti Linkola, Juan Boscán Almogáver, and Justus of Tiberias.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Ibn Warraq ranks 292. Before him are Jim Hines, Dragutin Šurbek, Miklós Németh, Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Murray Head, and Sue Lyon. After him are Stephen Rea, Adam Michnik, Ewa Kłobukowska, Carl Wilson, Dick Wolf, and Jeff Wall.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ibn Warraq ranks 383 out of 1,861. Before him are Khudiram Bose (1889), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861), and Guru Hargobind (1595). After him are Hussain Muhammad Ershad (1930), Idries Shah (1924), Rash Behari Bose (1886), Salim Ali (1896), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), and Mahbub ul Haq (1934).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ibn Warraq ranks 43. Before him are Sankardev (1449), Kuvempu (1904), Dnyaneshwar (1275), Mir Taqi Mir (1723), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), and Shakuntala Devi (1929). After him are Idries Shah (1924), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), T. H. White (1906), Subramania Bharati (1882), Abdul-Qādir Bedil (1642), and Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897).

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