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Aisha Taymur

1840 - 1902

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Aisha E'ismat Taymur (Arabic: عائشة عصمت تيمور‎ or 'A'isha al-Taymuriyya عائشة التيمورية‎; 1840–1902) was an Egyptian social activist, poet, novelist, and feminist in the Ottoman era. She was active in the early 19th century in the field of women's rights. Her writings came out in a period of time where women in Egypt were realizing that they were being deprived of some of the rights that Islam granted them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aisha Taymur has received more than 34,645 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Aisha Taymur is the 4,061st most popular writer (up from 4,516th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 457th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aisha Taymur ranks 4,061 out of 7,302. Before her are E. B. White, Gary Chapman, Fay Weldon, George Coșbuc, André Schwarz-Bart, and Wipo of Burgundy. After her are Daniel Silva, Alexandru Macedonski, Maria Edgeworth, Norman Manea, Bozorg Alavi, and Marco Foscarini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Aisha Taymur ranks 68. Before her are Lars Fredrik Nilson, Kazimierz Alchimowicz, André Gill, Franco Faccio, Célestine Galli-Marié, and Viktor Knorre. After her are Theodor Philipsen, Nozu Michitsura, Émile Duclaux, Chief Joseph, Hilarión Daza, and Ferdinand Sarrien. Among people deceased in 1902, Aisha Taymur ranks 58. Before her are Count Richard Belcredi, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Hervé Faye, Mark Antokolsky, and Bret Harte. After her are Antanas Baranauskas, John Wesley Powell, Salomon Jadassohn, Princess Marie of Nassau, Dmitry Sipyagin, and Gleb Uspensky.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Aisha Taymur ranks 464 out of 642. Before her are Pope Kedron of Alexandria (100), Stéphanos II Ghattas (1920), Gamal Al-Ghandour (1957), Alaa Al Aswany (1957), Mustafa Ben Halim (1921), and Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni (1940). After her are Abu Ayyub al-Masri (1968), Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889), Andrée Chedid (1920), Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha (1888), Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872), and Julian Fellowes (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Aisha Taymur ranks 48. Before her are Malak Hifni Nasif (1886), Doria Shafik (1908), Bat Ye'or (1933), Hafez Ibrahim (1872), Yusuf Idris (1927), and Alaa Al Aswany (1957). After her are Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889), Andrée Chedid (1920), Penelope Delta (1874), Gamal El-Ghitani (1945), Latifa al-Zayyat (1923), and Mahmud Taymur (1894).

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