Muslim 500: Buhari named seventeenth strongest Muslim, Sultan of Sokoto 18th

A former navy dictator, Mr Buhari was listed because the seventeenth strongest Muslim and the tenth strongest Muslim politician on the earth within the newest rating of the revered Muslim 500 publication.

PIX: BUHARI IN MECCA; SULTAN OF SOKOTO

The Muslim 500, a spiritual publication that charges necessary Islamic trustworthy worldwide, has ranked President Muhammadu Buhari because the seventeenth strongest Muslim.

A former navy dictator, Mr Buhari was listed because the seventeenth strongest Muslim and the tenth strongest Muslim politician on the earth within the newest rating of the revered Muslim 500 publication, seen by Peoples Gazette on Sunday night time.

The Nigerian chief has been ranked among the many high 50 Muslims globally since 2015, when he assumed workplace as a democratic head of state.

Mr Buhari was ranked seventeenth, trailing King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia (1), Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (4), President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (8), King Mohammed VI of Morocco (7), President of Indonesia President Joko Widodo (13) and different influential Islamic students.

In accordance with the report, he was named the seventeenth strongest Muslim determine among the many roughly 1.94 billion Muslims at this time.

Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto, additionally made the checklist, coming in at quantity 18 simply after Mr Buhari.

The report detailed that round one-fourth of all individuals on earth are religious Muslims.

Within the who’s who of the Islamic world, Muslim 500 acknowledged, “The High 50 people are ranked and listed first. The remaining 450 names are then listed (not ranked) in classes of affect, with a small quantity additionally chosen to be in our Honourable Mentions part to worth the notable contributions made of their fields.”

It added, “The people are ordered in every class in keeping with geographical area (Center East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America, South America), then in alphabetical order by nation and eventually by surname. This publication combines features of a evaluate of the previous yr, together with a timeline and statistics, but it surely additionally hopes to function a potential information to the brand new yr, very like a Who’s Who.”