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Évariste Lévi-Provençal

1894 - 1956

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Évariste Lévi-Provençal (4 January 1894 – 27 March 1956) was a French medievalist, orientalist, Arabist, and historian of Islam. The scholar who would take the name Lévi-Provençal was born 4 January 1894 in Constantine, French Algeria, as Makhlóuf Evariste Levi (Arabic: مخلوف إفاريست ليفي), his second name revealing that his North-African Jewish family was already somewhat Gallicized. By the age of nineteen when he published his first paper he had rechristened himself Évariste Lévi-Provençal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Évariste Lévi-Provençal has received more than 43,147 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Évariste Lévi-Provençal is the 195th most popular historian (up from 205th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Algeria (up from 77th in 2019) and the most popular Algerian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 195 out of 561. Before him are Karl Lamprecht, Adémar de Chabannes, Philistus, Slobodan Jovanović, W. Montgomery Watt, and William of Malmesbury. After him are Frederick Jackson Turner, Max Weinreich, Abu Mikhnaf, Linda Nochlin, Robert Conquest, and Ibn Abd al-Hakam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 107. Before him are Friedrich Pollock, C. R. Swart, Ángel Romano, Jerzy Neyman, Tivadar Soros, and Khawaja Nazimuddin. After him are Marietta Blau, Boris Pilnyak, Max Weinreich, David Butler, Henry Hazlitt, and Eduard Wagner. Among people deceased in 1956, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 88. Before him are Auguste Chevalier, Alexander Gretchaninov, Meghnad Saha, Ernest King, Charles Joughin, and Eduardo Lonardi. After him are André Marty, Clifford Brown, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, Walter Gieseking, Victor Young, and Carl Brockelmann.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 76 out of 213. Before him are Sidi Boushaki (1394), Rabah Bitat (1925), Françoise Fabian (1933), Lalla Fatma N'Soumer (1830), Messali Hadj (1898), and Abdelhamid Ben Badis (1889). After him are Ahmed Ouyahia (1952), Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578), Abdelmalek Sellal (1948), Rachid Taha (1958), Maximilian of Tebessa (274), and Lakhdar Belloumi (1958).

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Among HISTORIANS In Algeria

Among historians born in Algeria, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 1. After him are Albert Soboul (1914).

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