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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 31,737 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Aisha Taymur is the 4,530th most popular writer, the 460th most popular biography from Egypt and the 53rd most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 32k

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  • 46.90

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aisha Taymur ranks 4,530 out of 5,755Before her are Virginie Despentes, Birgitta Trotzig, Robert Greene, Ferreira de Castro, Alan Dean Foster, and Francis Davis Millet. After her are Zofia Posmysz, Sylvia Browne, Andrejs Upīts, Peter F. Hamilton, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, and Enric Valor i Vives.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Aisha Taymur ranks 76Before her are Nozu Michitsura, Ferdinand Sarrien, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Iakob Gogebashvili, Angelo de Gubernatis, and Émile Lemoine. After her are Hilarión Daza, Édouard Vaillant, Juan Bautista Gill, Ghazaros Aghayan, John Philip Holland, and Jakub Arbes. Among people deceased in 1902, Aisha Taymur ranks 64Before her are Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, John Wesley Powell, John Houlding, Gleb Uspensky, Richard Leach Maddox, and Emil Holub. After her are Frank Norris, Franz Sigel, Walter Reed, Johannes Wislicenus, William McGonagall, and Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Aisha Taymur ranks 460 out of 582Before her are Atef Ebeid (1932), Isidore of Alexandria (450), Mustafa Khalil (1920), Hossam Hassan (1966), Mahmud Taymur (1894), and Inji Aflatoun (1924). After her are Ali Gomaa (1952), Mahmoud El Khatib (1954), Tefta Tashko-Koço (1910), Lotfia Elnadi (1907), Pope Timothy II of Alexandria (null), and Iah (-2200).

Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Aisha Taymur ranks 53Before her are Hafez Ibrahim (1872), Sotion (-250), Andrée Chedid (1920), Penelope Delta (1874), Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889), and Mahmud Taymur (1894). After her are Karim Rashid (1960), Gamal El-Ghitani (1945), Magdi Allam (1952), Bahaa Taher (1935), Alifa Rifaat (1930), and Latifa al-Zayyat (1923).