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Mustafa Barzani

1903 - 1979

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Mustafa Barzani (14 March 1903 – 1 March 1979), also known as Mullah Mustafa, was a Kurdish nationalist leader and one of the most prominent political figures in modern Kurdish politics. In 1946, he was chosen as the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to lead the Kurdish revolt against the Kingdom of Iraq. Barzani was the primary political and military leader of the Kurdish separatist movement until his death in March 1979. He led campaigns of armed insurgency against both the Iraqi and Iranian governments. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mustafa Barzani is the 69th most popular social activist (down from 61st in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Iraq (down from 50th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Social Activist.

Mustafa Barzani is most famous for leading the Kurdish people to independence in Iraq.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mustafa Barzani ranks 69 out of 840. Before him are Carl von Ossietzky, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Túpac Amaru II, Angela Davis, Alexey Stakhanov, and Jody Williams. After him are José Rizal, Emilia Plater, Yun Chi-ho, Horst Wessel, Babak Khorramdin, and Gunnar Sønsteby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Mustafa Barzani ranks 27. Before him are Tamam Shud case, Lars Onsager, Kane Tanaka, Frank P. Ramsey, Hugo Theorell, and Anaïs Nin. After him are Karl Hanke, Rudolf Abel, Nikolai Podgorny, Fahri Korutürk, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, and Raymond Queneau. Among people deceased in 1979, Mustafa Barzani ranks 21. Before him are Nadia Boulanger, Mika Waltari, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Hafizullah Amin, Ludvík Svoboda, and Robert Burns Woodward. After him are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Sonia Delaunay, Hanna Reitsch, Agostinho Neto, Sid Vicious, and Feodor Lynen.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Mustafa Barzani ranks 53 out of 384. Before him are Ur-Nammu (-2200), Al-Jahiz (775), Suleyman Shah (1178), Shalmaneser III (-900), Al-Mutawakkil (822), and Al-Baladhuri (806). After him are Ashurnasirpal II (-1000), Junayd of Baghdad (830), Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914), Nabopolassar (-658), Al-Amin (787), and Ya'qubi (801).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Iraq

Among social activists born in Iraq, Mustafa Barzani ranks 1. After him are Rashid ad-Din Sinan (1130), Al-Mu'tazz (847), David Sassoon (1792), Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid (948), Naziha al-Dulaimi (1923), and Zainab Salbi (1969).

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