{"id":48301,"date":"2018-10-23T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48301"},"modified":"2018-10-25T11:17:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:17:37","slug":"erdogan-ranked-worlds-top-influential-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/erdogan-ranked-worlds-top-influential-muslim\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan ranked world&#8217;s top influential Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2308\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Erdugan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Erdugan.jpg 481w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Erdugan-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ranked first place in the 2019 edition of the World&#8217;s 500 Most Influential Muslims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prepared annually by the Jordan-based Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, the book notes that Erdogan became Turkey\u2019s first popularly-elected president in August 2014 and then secured a second-term in the 2018 election with 52.5 percent of the vote, where electoral turnout was 86 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;During his terms, Turkey has seen unprecedented economic growth, constitutional reform, and a re-emergence as a major global power,&#8221; the publication said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \"><p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- Automatic size Responsive --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"7381563475\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under Erdogan&#8217;s leadership, it said, Turkey has focused on building stronger relations with all of its seven land-contiguous neighbors, especially Greece, and also all of those countries bordering the Black Sea &#8212; an important trading hub and a geopolitically significant area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In Africa, it has opened up over twenty new embassies and consulates, and when Somalia suffered from a crippling famine and drought in 2011, Erdogan not only gave aid, but also became the first leader from outside Africa to visit Somalia in nearly two decades,&#8221; it stressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the book&#8217;s editions belonging to previous years, Erdogan was ranked 8th in 2016 and 2017, and 5th in 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 2019 ranking, King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud was ranked second in being the most influential Muslim, while Jordanian King Abdullah II Ibn Al-Hussein was ranked third.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book is being prepared by The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan&#8217;s capital Amman since 2009, and its 10th edition for the year 2019 was published this month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It sets out to ascertain the influence some Muslims have on the Ummah (worldwide Muslim community), or on behalf of the Ummah, according to the book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Influence is: any person who has the power [be it cultural, ideological, financial, political or otherwise] to make a change that will have a significant impact on the Muslim world,&#8221; it explains.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/erdogan-ranked-worlds-top-influential-muslim\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ranked first place in the 2019 edition of the World&#8217;s 500 Most Influential Muslims. 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