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WRITER

Al-Khansa

575 - 645

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Tumāḍir bint ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith ibn al-Sharīd al-Sulamīyah (Arabic: تماضر بنت عمرو بن الحارث بن الشريد السُلمية), usually simply referred to as al-Khansāʾ (Arabic: الخنساء, meaning "snub-nosed", an Arabic epithet for a gazelle as metaphor for beauty) was a 7th-century tribeswoman, living in the Arabian Peninsula. She was one of the most influential poets of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods. In her time, the role of a female poet was to write elegies for the dead and perform them for the tribe in public oral competitions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Khansa has received more than 195,549 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Al-Khansa is the 1,228th most popular writer (up from 1,352nd in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 115th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Saudi Arabian Writer.

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  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Al-Khansa ranks 1,228 out of 5,755. Before her are Cornelius Gallus, Carson McCullers, Victorien Sardou, Antipater of Sidon, Nizar Qabbani, and Bolesław Prus. After her are Gottfried Benn, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Ljudevit Gaj, Andrei Platonov, Quintus Fabius Pictor, and Yosa Buson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 575, Al-Khansa ranks 3. Before her are Heraclius and Pope Boniface V. After her is Cynegils. Among people deceased in 645, Al-Khansa ranks 2. Before her is Saint Gall. After her is Soga no Iruka.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Al-Khansa ranks 117 out of 251. Before her are Abul Kalam Azad (1888), Wasil ibn Ata (700), Ali of Hejaz (1879), Antarah ibn Shaddad (525), Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam (null), and Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz (1910). After her are Al-Waqidi (747), Hassan ibn Thabit (554), 'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As (616), Muqrin bin Abdulaziz (1945), Al-Waleed bin Talal (1955), and Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr (631).

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Among WRITERS In Saudi Arabia

Among writers born in Saudi Arabia, Al-Khansa ranks 4. Before her are Jamal Khashoggi (1958), Imru' al-Qais (501), and Antarah ibn Shaddad (525). After her are Hassan ibn Thabit (554), Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf (600), Al-A'sha (570), and Raif Badawi (1984).

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