What is the personality type of Mukhtar al-Thaqafi? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Mukhtar al-Thaqafi from Historical Figures 700s and what is the personality traits.
Mukhtar al-Thaqafi personality type is INTJ, which is why he is so full of zeal for the ideology of his religion. He is so full of zeal for his religion that he is willing to die in the process of implementing it.
Another thing to note about Mukhtar is that he is also a fraud (he claims to be a former "Patriot" who has left the organization and is now a whistleblower. This, like everything else about him, is a lie). He also has a history of fraud and deception (see post, "Mukhtar al-Thaqafi: The Iraq War and the Rise of ISIS," and other posts, such as this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this). He also has a history of lying (see post, "Mukhtar al-Thaqafi: The Iraq War and the Rise of ISIS," and other posts, such as this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this).
Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd Al-Thaqafi (Arabic: ٱلْمُخْتَار ٱبْن أَبِي عُبَيْد ٱلثَّقَفِيّ, al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafīy; c. 622 – 3 April 687) was a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq for eighteen months during the Second Fitna.
Born in Ta'if, Mukhtar moved to Iraq at a young age and grew up in Kufa. Following the death of Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at the hands of the Umayyad army in the Battle of Karbala in 680, he allied with the rival caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr in Mecca, but the alliance was short-lived.