WRITER

Amin Maalouf

1949 - Today

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Amin Maalouf (French: [maluf]; Arabic: أمين معلوف Arabic pronunciation: [maʕˈluːf]; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French author who has lived in France since 1976. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French, and his works have been translated into over 40 languages. Of his several works of nonfiction, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes is probably the best known. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amin Maalouf has received more than 522,154 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia. Amin Maalouf is the 732nd most popular writer (down from 639th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Lebanese Writer.

Amin Maalouf is most famous for his novel, "The Rock of Tanios."

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  • 59

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  • 4.51

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Notable Works

Croisades vues par les Arabes
History
Retraces two critical centuries of Middle Eastern history, presents an intriguing chronicle of the Crusades, and offers insights into the forces that shape Arab and Islamic consciousness today
Léon, l'Africain
Samarcande
Fiction
The story of Samarkand is woven around the history of the manuscript of the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam, from its creation by the poet and sage in eleventh-century Persia to its loss when the Titanic sank in 1912. Unwittingly involved in a brawl on the streets of Samarkand, Omar Khayyam is brought before a local judge who recognizes his genius as a poet and gives him a blank book in which to inscribe his verses. Thus the head of a great poet is saved and the Rubaiyaat of Omar Khayyam is born. The threads of his life become interwoven with the designs of the vizier, Nizam al Mulk, and of Hassan Sabbah, the founder of the Order of the Assassins who later hides the precious manuscript in his famous mountain fortress. At the end of the nineteenth century the poems fire the imagination of the West in Edward Fitzgerald's evocative translation. An American scholar learns of the manuscript's survival and recovers it with the help of a Persian princess. Together they take it on the fateful voyage of the Titanic.
Jardins de lumière
Biographical fiction
Le rocher de Tanios
Fiction
An exploration of myth, passion and loyalty from the Lebanon's troubled past, The Rock of Tanios is another superbly rich and rewarding novel from the author of Samarkand and Leo the African. Expertly controlling his multi-faceted narrative with prose of great beauty and power, Maalouf delves into the history of an extraordinary life: that of Tanois, child of the mountains.
Samarcande
Fiction, History, New York Times reviewed
The life of Omar Khayyam, the 11th Century Persian poet who wrote The Rubaiyaat, chronicling his adventures and romances. The novel is in two parts, the second describing the manner in which the manuscript reached the West. Description: 304 p. ; 21 cm. Series Title: Emerging voices. Other Titles: Samarcande. Responsibility: Amin Maalouf ; translated by Russell Harris.
Le rocher de Tanios
History, Histoire, Romans, nouvelles
Croisades vues par les Arabes
Crusades, History, non-fiction
Léon, l'Africain
Discoveries in geography, Discovery and exploration, Explorers
Les croisades vues par les Arabes
Croisades, Histoire, Crusades
Balthasar's Odyssey
Voyages and travels, Merchants, Name
In 1665, with prophecies and portents foretelling the forthcoming Apocalypse, Balthasar, an antiquarian merchant and sage, embarks on a perilous quest to find a rare book that could hold the key to the world's salvation. Description: 391 pages : map ; 25 cm. Other Titles: Périple de Baldassare. Responsibility: Amin Maalouf ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray.

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amin Maalouf ranks 732 out of 7,302Before him are Robert E. Howard, Alejo Carpentier, Christopher Tolkien, Edmond Rostand, Arthur Adamov, and Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani. After him are Beatrix Potter, Cao Xueqin, Walter Raleigh, Sidonius Apollinaris, Otto of Freising, and Georg Büchner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Amin Maalouf ranks 48Before him are Fanny Ardant, Martin Amis, José Ramos-Horta, Ottmar Hitzfeld, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Bill Nighy. After him are Don Johnson, Nando Parrado, Ruud Krol, Ashraf Ghani, Billy Joel, and Horst Ludwig Störmer.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Amin Maalouf ranks 17 out of 145Before him are Christina of Bolsena (210), Fairuz (1935), Hassan Nasrallah (1960), Pope Constantine (664), Najib Mikati (1955), and Bachir Gemayel (1947). After him are Eusebius of Nicomedia (280), Émile Lahoud (1936), Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (1073), Amine Gemayel (1942), Pierre Gemayel (1905), and Rashid Rida (1865).

Among WRITERS In Lebanon

Among writers born in Lebanon, Amin Maalouf ranks 2Before him are Khalil Gibran (1883). After him are Antipater of Sidon (-200), Mikha'il Na'ima (1889), Philo of Byblos (64), Etel Adnan (1925), Butrus al-Bustani (1819), Charles Malik (1906), Said Akl (1911), Elias Khoury (1948), Sanchuniathon (-150), and Wajdi Mouawad (1968).