RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Mullah Krekar

1956 - Today

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Najmadin Faraj Ahmad (7 July 1956), better known as Mullah Krekar, is an Iraqi Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar and militant leader. He was a commander for the Peshmerga unit belonging to the Kurdistan Islamic Movement during the 1991 Iraqi uprisings. Later, he founded Ansar al-Islam in 2001, and left for Norway in 2003, where he founded Rawti Shax. He was arrested and is currently serving a prison sentence in Italy, after having been extradited from Norway in 2020. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mullah Krekar is the 2,791st most popular religious figure (down from 2,572nd in 2019), the 321st most popular biography from Iraq (down from 315th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Mullah Krekar ranks 2,791 out of 3,187. Before him are Paul Peter Meouchi, Raúl Silva Henríquez, Chad of Mercia, Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Oliver of Paderborn, and Hilda of Whitby. After him are Georg Sterzinsky, Tadevuš Kandrusievič, Jānis Endzelīns, Emma Smith, Genesius of Rome, and Francis Spellman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Mullah Krekar ranks 331. Before him are Alina Fernández, Raimundo Pereira, Ismaël Lô, Velimir Zajec, John Lee Hancock, and Alain Perrin. After him are François Hesnault, Diane Warren, Miguel Ángel Russo, Oscar Garré, Chuy García, and Jean-Paul Agon.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Mullah Krekar ranks 321 out of 384. Before him are Shlomo Hillel (1923), Ashur-bel-nisheshu (-1500), Kadim Al Sahir (1957), Hussein Saeed (1958), Akurgal (-2600), and Jalal Dabagh (1939). After him are Ashur-rim-nisheshu (-1490), Mesannepada (-2490), Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942), Avi Shlaim (1945), Jaafar Al-Askari (1885), and Puzur-Ashur I (-2050).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iraq

Among religious figures born in Iraq, Mullah Krekar ranks 37. Before him are Yahya ibn Ma'in (775), Muhammad al-Sadr (1943), Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni (1879), Yitzhak Kaduri (1898), Ma'mar ibn al-Muthanna (728), and Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (1980). After him are Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942), Sajida al-Rishawi (1970), and Bashar Warda (1969).

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