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Al-Nuwayri

1279 - 1333

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Al-Nuwayrī, full name Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayrī (Arabic: شهاب الدين أحمد بن عبد الوهاب النويري, 5 April 1279 – 5 June 1333) was an Egyptian Muslim historian and civil servant of the Bahri Mamluk dynasty. He is most notable for his compilation of a 9,000-page encyclopedia of the Mamluk era, titled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (نهاية الأرب في فنون الأدب, Nihāyat al-arab fī funūn al-adab), which pertained to zoology, anatomy, history, chronology, amongst others. He is also known for his extensive work regarding the Mongols' conquest of Syria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Nuwayri has received more than 42,990 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Nuwayri is the 258th most popular historian, the 396th most popular biography from Egypt and the 7th most popular Egyptian Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 43k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Al-Nuwayri ranks 258 out of 339. Before him are Charles Barbier de Meynard, Lucius Coelius Antipater, Ziya Bunyadov, William H. Prescott, Yahya of Antioch, and Guglielmo Ferrero. After him are Ghazar Parpetsi, Christopher Hill, Bernard Berenson, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Johannes Meursius, and Walter Burkert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1279, Al-Nuwayri ranks 3. Before him are Louis I, Duke of Bourbon and Ismail I of Granada.  Among people deceased in 1333, Al-Nuwayri ranks 8. Before him are Antipope Nicholas V, Muhammad IV of Granada, Manuel II of Trebizond, Prince Morikuni, Rita of Armenia, and Henry XV, Duke of Bavaria.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Al-Nuwayri ranks 396 out of 582. Before him are Pope Demetrius I of Alexandria (200), Georges Schehadé (1905), Al-Zafir (1133), Mostafa El-Nahas (1879), Yahya of Antioch (980), and Zainab al Ghazali (1917). After him are Riccardo Freda (1909), Khenemetneferhedjet I (-1950), Hind Rostom (1929), Doria Shafik (1908), Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam (1893), and W. D. Hamilton (1936).

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Among HISTORIANS In Egypt

Among historians born in Egypt, Al-Nuwayri ranks 7. Before him are Manetho (-201), Eric Hobsbawm (1917), Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (1372), Theophylact Simocatta (580), Al-Maqrizi (1364), and Yahya of Antioch (980). After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1754) and H. A. R. Gibb (1895).

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