PHILOSOPHER

Shah Waliullah Dehlawi

1703 - 1762

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Qutb ud-Din Ahmad ibn ʿAbd-ur-Rahim al-ʿUmari ad-Dehlawi (Arabic: قطب الدين أحمد بن عبد الرحيم العمري الدهلوي, romanized: Quṭb ad-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm al-ʿUmarī ad-Dehlawī‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic Sunni scholar and Sufi reformer, who contributed to Islamic revival in the Indian subcontinent and is therefore seen by his followers as a renewer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shah Waliullah Dehlawi is the 439th most popular philosopher (up from 579th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from India (up from 200th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 439 out of 1,267. Before him are Francisco Ferrer, Moses Hess, Thomas Cajetan, Gautama Maharishi, Peter Sloterdijk, and Eudemus of Rhodes. After him are Rodolphus Agricola, Chantal Mouffe, Gershom Scholem, Christian Thomasius, Zhiyi, and Ernesto Laclau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 6. Before him are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, François Boucher, Marie Leszczyńska, John Wesley, and Louis, Duke of Orléans. After him are Jonathan Edwards, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Aleksei Chirikov, and Johann Gottlieb Graun. Among people deceased in 1762, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 9. Before him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Emperor Momozono, James Bradley, Crown Prince Sado, and Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria. After him are Francesco Geminiani, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Tobias Mayer, Jean Calas, and Dorothea Erxleben.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 169 out of 1,861. Before him are Vikramaditya (-102), Ravi Shankar (1956), George Alencherry (1945), Anna Mani (1918), Jayalalithaa (1948), and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815). After him are Mukesh (1923), Anthony de Mello (1931), Mahboob Ali Khan (1866), Sarojini Naidu (1879), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), and Jyotirao Phule (1827).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi ranks 19. Before him are Sri Aurobindo (1872), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Vyasa (-390), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Ramanuja (1017), and Chandrakirti (600). After him are Jyotirao Phule (1827), Shantideva (685), Homi K. Bhabha (1949), Madhvacharya (1199), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), and Ahmad Sirhindi (1564).

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