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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 333,822 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Ahmed Shawqi is the 1,512th most popular writer (up from 1,702nd in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 259th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 1,512 out of 5,755Before him are Samuel Pepys, Władysław Tarnowski, Mário de Andrade, Herbjørg Wassmo, Lee Child, and Otfried Preußler. After him are Upton Sinclair, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ion Luca Caragiale, Jules de Goncourt, Usama ibn Munqidh, and Jean-Jacques Ampère.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 63Before him are Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, Paul Otlet, Henry Bergman, Ernst Linder, Alice Keppel, and W. E. B. Du Bois. After him are Noe Zhordania, S. P. L. Sørensen, Mary Parker Follett, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr., Paul P. Harris, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria. Among people deceased in 1932, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 34Before him are Alexander Grin, John Charles Fields, Georg Kerschensteiner, Kang Pan-sok, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Tomáš Baťa. After him are Reginald Fessenden, Ovide Decroly, John Philip Sousa, Johannes Schober, Louis Anquetin, and King C. Gillette.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 252 out of 582Before him are Jehan Sadat (1933), Suzanne Mubarak (1941), Al-Mustansir Billah (1029), Al-Muazzam Turanshah (1250), Mohammed Badie (1943), and An-Nasir Muhammad (1285). After him are Peire de Montagut (1200), Nepherites II (-400), Qakare Ibi (-2181), Pope Peter I of Alexandria (300), Wazner (-3500), and Neferhotep I (-1800).

Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 16Before him are Nonnus (500), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Taha Hussein (1889), Dionysius Thrax (-170), Achilles Tatius (200), and Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888). After him are Herodas (-300), Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928), Didymus Chalcenterus (-63), Ibn al-Farid (1181), Edmond Jabès (1912), and Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898).