SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mukhtar al-Thaqafi

622 - 687

Mukhtar al-Thaqafi

Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi (Arabic: الْمُخْتَار ٱبْن أَبِي عُبَيْد الثَّقَفِيّ, romanized: al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī; c. 622 – 3 April 687) was a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq for eighteen months during the Second Fitna. Born in Ta'if, Mukhtar moved to Iraq at a young age and grew up in Kufa. Following the death of Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at the hands of the Umayyad army in the Battle of Karbala in 680, he allied with the rival caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca, but the alliance was short-lived. Mukhtar returned to Kufa where he declared Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya, a son of caliph Ali (r. 656–661) and brother of Husayn, the mahdi and the imam, and called for the establishment of an Alid caliphate and retaliation for Husayn's killing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mukhtar al-Thaqafi is the 107th most popular social activist (down from 63rd in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Saudi Arabian Social Activist.

Mukhtar al-Thaqafi is most famous for his revolt against the Umayyad caliphate in the year 735.

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Among social activists, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi ranks 107 out of 840. Before him are Gabrielle d'Estrées, Léon Jouhaux, Lee Radziwill, Louise Michel, Augusto César Sandino, and Antipope Clement III. After him are Fanny Kaplan, John Brown, Fra Dolcino, Zhang Jue, Marinus van der Lubbe, and René Just Haüy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 622, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi ranks 1. After him are Mizizios, Uqba ibn Nafi, and Tulga. Among people deceased in 687, Mukhtar al-Thaqafi ranks 2. Before him is Pope Conon. After him are Erwig, and Cuthbert.