WRITER

Abbās al-Aqqād

1889 - 1964

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Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad (Arabic: عباس محمود العقاد, ALA-LC: ‘Abbās Maḥmūd al-‘Aqqād; 28 June 1889 – 12 March 1964) was an Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic, and member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abbās al-Aqqād has received more than 68,099 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Abbās al-Aqqād is the 3,077th most popular writer (down from 2,886th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from Egypt (down from 364th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Egyptian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 68k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rajʻat Abī al-ʻAlāʾ
Fiction
1900
al- Shuyūʻīyah wa-al-insānīyah fī sharīʻat al-Islām
Communism and Islam
1960
al- Majmūʻah al-kāmilah li-muʾallafāt al-Ustādh ʻAbbās Maḥmūd al-ʻAqqād
1974
Sāʻāt bayna al-kutub
Books and reading, Arabic literature
1929
Saʻd Zaghlūl
Statesmen, Biography, Politics and government
1936
Majmaʻ al-aḥyāʾ
1944

Page views of Abbās al-Aqqāds by language

Over the past year Abbās al-Aqqād has had the most page views in the with 149,166 views, followed by Egyptian Arabic (9,027), and Persian (4,672). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uyghur (93.08%), Georgian (82.74%), and Kurdish (Kurmanji) (67.64%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abbās al-Aqqād ranks 3,077 out of 7,302. Before him are Wang Bo, Abdulah Sidran, Arno Schmidt, Banjo Paterson, Robert Fisk, and Antonio Fogazzaro. After him are William Ernest Henley, Yulian Semyonov, Sylvain Maréchal, Olena Teliha, Alexandros Papadiamantis, and Viktor Yerofeyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Abbās al-Aqqād ranks 141. Before him are Albin Stenroos, Ralph Craig, Shigeyoshi Inoue, Adolphe Pégoud, Edith Tolkien, and Bodil Ipsen. After him are Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Maria Dąbrowska, Angelo Iachino, Ludwig Renn, Dietrich von Hildebrand, and Alexander Vertinsky. Among people deceased in 1964, Abbās al-Aqqād ranks 93. Before him are Otto Ciliax, Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg, Maithili Sharan Gupt, Francisco Canaro, Charilaos Vasilakos, and Bodil Ipsen. After him are Sofoklis Venizelos, Bernhard Goetzke, Eugen Sänger, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Rickard Sandler, and Ernst Toch.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Abbās al-Aqqād ranks 401 out of 642. Before him are Pope Achillas of Alexandria (300), Georges Schehadé (1905), Hermias (401), Zainab al Ghazali (1917), Anatolius of Laodicea (201), and Al-Mustakfi I (1285). After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1754), Yahya of Antioch (980), Ibrahim Mahlab (1949), Walther von Hünersdorff (1898), Al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah (1149), and Ali Sabri (1920).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Abbās al-Aqqād ranks 38. Before him are Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888), Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874), Olympiodorus of Thebes (301), Farag Foda (1946), Salama Moussa (1887), and Georges Schehadé (1905). After him are Eutychius of Alexandria (877), C. S. Forester (1899), André Aciman (1951), Malak Hifni Nasif (1886), Doria Shafik (1908), and Bat Ye'or (1933).

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