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Al-Maʿarri

973 - 1057

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Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (Arabic: أبو العلاء المعري, full name أبو العلاء أحمد بن عبد الله بن سليمان التنوخي المعري Abū al-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān al-Tanūkhī al-Maʿarrī, also known under his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis; December 973 – May 1057) was a philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Syria. Because of his controversially irreligious worldview, he is known as one of the "foremost atheists" of his time according to Nasser Rabbat.Born in the city of al-Ma'arra (present-day Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Syria) during the later Abbasid era, he became blind at a young age from smallpox but nonetheless studied in nearby Aleppo, then in Tripoli and Antioch. Producing popular poems in Baghdad, he refused to sell his texts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Maʿarri has received more than 447,821 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Al-Maʿarri is the 434th most popular writer (up from 500th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Syria (up from 21st in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Writer.

Al-Maʿarri was a poet and philosopher from Syria who wrote in Arabic. He is most famous for his work "The Epistle of Forgiveness," which was a response to the "Epistle of Forgiveness" by Al-Ghazali.

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  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Risālat al-ghufrān
1950
Risālat al-ghufrān
Arabic literature, Paradise, Early works to 1800
1937
The diwan of Abu'l-Ala
1908
Luzūmīyāt
Arabic poetry, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation
1918
Luzūm mā lā yalzam
1952
Saqt al-zand
1957

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Over the past year Al-Maʿarri has had the most page views in the with 165,967 views, followed by Persian (29,181), and English (11,543). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (248.91%), (219.67%), and Portuguese (73.69%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Al-Maʿarri ranks 434 out of 7,302. Before him are Philip Roth, William of Rubruck, Phaedrus, Andrzej Sapkowski, Frank Herbert, and Hector Malot. After him are Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kurt Vonnegut, Louis Aragon, André Maurois, Meera, and Lysias.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 973, Al-Maʿarri ranks 4. Before him are Al-Biruni, Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Murasaki Shikibu.  Among people deceased in 1057, Al-Maʿarri ranks 1. After him are Pope Victor II, Macbeth, King of Scotland, Reginald I, Count of Burgundy, Edward the Exile, Otto III, Duke of Swabia, and Leofric, Earl of Mercia.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Al-Maʿarri ranks 18 out of 210. Before him are Ibn Kathir (1301), Pope Anicetus (70), Muawiya II (661), Marwan II (688), Julia Domna (160), and Al-Nawawi (1233). After him are Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (1292), Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (1882), John Climacus (579), Iamblichus (245), Aemilius Papinianus (142), and Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (691).

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Among WRITERS In Syria

Among writers born in Syria, Al-Maʿarri ranks 1. After him are Adunis (1930), Heliodorus of Emesa (250), Nizar Qabbani (1923), Andrew of Crete (660), Herodian (170), Khaled al-Asaad (1932), Abu Tammam (788), Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), Jurji Zaydan (1861), Cassius Longinus (213), and Alciphron (200).

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