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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

1835 - 1908

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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (13 February 1835 – 26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam. He claimed to have been divinely appointed as the promised Messiah and Mahdī, in fulfillment of the Islamic prophecies regarding the end times, as well as the Mujaddid (centennial reviver) of the 14th Islamic century. Born to a family with aristocratic roots in Qadian, rural Punjab, Ahmad emerged as a writer and debater for Islam. When he was just over forty years of age, his father died and around that time he claimed that God began to communicate with him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is the 775th most popular religious figure (down from 702nd in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from India (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 775 out of 3,187. Before him are Gregory Thaumaturgus, Expeditus, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Giovanni Angelo Becciu, Lucile Randon, and Antipope Paschal III. After him are Charles I, Count of Flanders, Peter Turkson, Willibrord, Augustine of Canterbury, Apollinaris of Ravenna, and Eutychius of Constantinople.

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Among people born in 1835, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 17. Before him are Andrew Carnegie, Demetrius Vikelas, Samuel Butler, Henryk Wieniawski, César Cui, and Eduard Strauss. After him are Fukuzawa Yukichi, William Stanley Jevons, Nikolai Rubinstein, Alexander Agassiz, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Hijikata Toshizō. Among people deceased in 1908, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 11. Before him are Randal Cremer, Guangxu Emperor, Pablo de Sarasate, Demetrius Vikelas, Carlos I of Portugal, and Edmondo De Amicis. After him are Jonas Lie, Victorien Sardou, Butch Cassidy, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, Radoje Domanović, and Joseph Maria Olbrich.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 124 out of 1,861. Before him are Baji Rao I (1700), Satyendra Nath Bose (1894), Maharana Pratap (1540), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Rajendra Prasad (1884), and A. R. Rahman (1966). After him are Samudragupta (335), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), Pete Best (1941), Ravi Shankar (1920), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), and Ghiyas ud din Balban (1200).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ranks 11. Before him are Guru Gobind Singh (1666), Maudgalyayana (-568), Mahākāśyapa (-550), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486), and Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855). After him are Radha (null), Mahinda (-285), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), Guru Arjan (1563), Guru Angad (1504), and Ravi Shankar (1956).

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