RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi

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Mohammad Baqer Majlesi (c. 1627 – 29 March 1699; Persian: محمد باقر مجلسی), also known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi Al-Thani (Majlesi the Second), was an influential Iranian Akhbari Twelver Shia scholar and thinker during the Safavid era. He has been described as "one of the most powerful and influential Shi'a ulema of all time", whose "policies and actions reoriented Twelver Shia'ism in the direction that it was to develop from his day on." He was buried next to his father in a family mausoleum located next to the Jamé Mosque of Isfahan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi is the 1,885th most popular religious figure (down from 1,263rd in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 204th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi ranks 1,885 out of 3,187. Before him are Manuel Clemente, Pandita Ramabai, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz, Marie Laveau, Domenico Calcagno, and Julian of Toledo. After him are Francesco Montenegro, Carlo Furno, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, Juraj Križanić, Alexandrina of Balazar, and Maximilian Henry of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1627, Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi ranks 17. Before him are Petro Doroshenko, Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau, Murad Giray, Johann Caspar Kerll, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and Georg Eberhard Rumphius. After him are John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Jan de Bray, and Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi ranks 253 out of 631. Before him are Mohammad Beheshti (1928), Daqiqi (1000), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), Lotf Ali Khan (1769), Morteza Motahhari (1919), and Hayedeh (1942). After him are Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani (967), Parvin E'tesami (1907), Farahnaz Pahlavi (1963), Hossein Nasr (1933), Shirin Neshat (1957), and Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1933).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi ranks 27. Before him are Aga Khan II (1830), Ibn Babawayh (918), Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (933), Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854), Ibn Khuzayma (838), and Morteza Motahhari (1919). After him are Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi (1875), Reza Hosseini Nassab (1960), Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (948), Al-Qadi Abd al-Jabbar (935), Sadegh Khalkhali (1926), and Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906).

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