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Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi

1787 - 1859

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Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi (Arabic: محمد بن علي السنوسي; in full Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Sanūsī al-Mujāhirī al-Ḥasanī al-Idrīsī) (1787–1859) was an Algerian Muslim theologian and leader who founded the Senussi mystical order in 1837. His militant mystical movement proved very significant and helped Libya to win its freedom from Italy on 10 February 1947. Omar Mukhtar was one of the most significant leaders of the Senussi military campaign launched by Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi. Al-Sanūsī's grandson Idrīs I ruled as king of Libya from 1951 to 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi is the 9,631st most popular politician (down from 7,263rd in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 57th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Algerian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi ranks 9,631 out of 19,576. Before her are Leonidas Pyrgos, Leonardo Donato, Sophia of Holstein-Gottorp, Joseph Caillaux, John Howard, and Rurik Rostislavich. After her are Mikhail Loris-Melikov, Ahmad al-Muqtadir, Burna-Buriash II, Michel Théato, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, and Foday Sankoh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1787, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi ranks 25. Before her are James Weddell, Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse, Delphine LaLaurie, Friedrich Krupp, and François Sudre. After her are Eliza Poe, Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Mathieu Orfila, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen, William Etty, and Josef Ludwig von Armansperg. Among people deceased in 1859, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi ranks 39. Before her are Zygmunt Krasiński, Karl Baedeker, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, William Cranch Bond, Sergey Aksakov, and Thomas Horsfield. After her are F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Princess Anna of Saxony, William H. Prescott, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, Horace Mann, and Stefan Bogoridi.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi ranks 76 out of 213. Before her are Lakhdar Brahimi (1934), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Roger Hanin (1925), Ahmed Ouyahia (1952), Évariste Lévi-Provençal (1894), and Mohammed Dib (1920). After her are Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre (1810), Abdelmalek Sellal (1948), Émile Boirac (1851), Françoise Arnoul (1931), Messali Hadj (1898), and Albert Soboul (1914).

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Among POLITICIANS In Algeria

Among politicians born in Algeria, Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi ranks 29. Before her are René Viviani (1862), Ali Kafi (1928), Rabah Bitat (1925), Kusaila (640), Lakhdar Brahimi (1934), and Ahmed Ouyahia (1952). After her are Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre (1810), Abdelmalek Sellal (1948), Messali Hadj (1898), Quintus Lollius Urbicus (150), Abderrahmane Farès (1911), and Fernand Bouisson (1874).

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