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Ahmed Shawqi

1868 - 1932

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Ahmed Shawqi (Arabic: أحمد شوقي, ALA-LC: Aḥmad Shawqī, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʔæħmæd ˈʃæwʔi]; 1868–1932), nicknamed the Prince of Poets (Arabic: أمير الشعراء Amīr al-Shu‘arā’), was an Egyptian poet laureate, Linguist, and one of the most famous Arabic literary writers of the modern era in the Arab World. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Shawqi has received more than 351,596 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Ahmed Shawqi is the 1,517th most popular writer (down from 1,509th in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 251st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Antara
2018
El-Bakhila ( Arabic Edition )
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 1,517 out of 7,302. Before him are Hjalmar Söderberg, Babrius, Ion Luca Caragiale, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, J. G. Ballard, and Semonides of Amorgos. After him are Hugo Claus, Diagoras of Melos, Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Madame d'Aulnoy, Eduard Mörike, and Vasil Bykaŭ.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 62. Before him are Olga Knipper, Louis Couturat, Émile Chartier, Franz Ritter von Epp, Paul Otlet, and Francis Jammes. After him are Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Empress Dowager Longyu, Noe Zhordania, Aleksa Šantić, and Alice Keppel. Among people deceased in 1932, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 34. Before him are Inukai Tsuyoshi, Ottokar Czernin, Kang Pan-sok, Émile Friant, Tomáš Baťa, and John Charles Fields. After him are Guillaume Bigourdan, Alexander Grin, Johannes Schober, Hovannes Adamian, Emil Orlík, and Begum Rokeya.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 259 out of 642. Before him are Ammonius Hermiae (440), Samir Amin (1931), Narriman Sadek (1933), Achilles Tatius (200), Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria (444), and Ahmose (-1504). After him are Marika Rökk (1913), Ahmed Shafik (1941), Menkare (-2200), Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (1929), Zein Al-Sharaf Talal (1916), and Sobekhotep IV (-1700).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 17. Before him are Taha Hussein (1889), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Dionysius Thrax (-170), Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888), Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928), and Achilles Tatius (200). After him are Ibn al-Farid (1181), Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), Herodas (-300), Edmond Jabès (1912), Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), and Anastasius Sinaita (630).

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