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Antarah ibn Shaddad

525 - 615

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Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi (Arabic: عنترة بن شداد العبسي), ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād al-ʿAbsī; AD 525–608), also known as ʿAntar, was a pre-Islamic Arab knight and poet, famous for both his poetry and his adventurous life. His chief poem forms part of the Mu'allaqāt, the collection of seven "hanging odes" legendarily said to have been suspended in the Kaaba at Mecca. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antarah ibn Shaddad has received more than 467,831 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Antarah ibn Shaddad is the 1,122nd most popular writer (up from 1,179th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 114th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Saudi Arabian Writer.

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  • 470k

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  • 60.87

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

War Songs
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antarah ibn Shaddad ranks 1,122 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernardino de Sahagún, Zenodotus, Ernst Hanfstaengl, P. L. Travers, Alain-Fournier, and Norman Mailer. After him are Agathon, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, Lü Dongbin, Edmund Spenser, John Grisham, and August von Kotzebue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 525, Antarah ibn Shaddad ranks 3. Before him are Pope Benedict I, and Liuvigild. After him are Alexander of Tralles, Justinian, and Aneirin. Among people deceased in 615, Antarah ibn Shaddad ranks 5. Before him are Pope Boniface IV, Sumayyah bint Khabbat, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, and Columbanus.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Antarah ibn Shaddad ranks 129 out of 354. Before him are Waraqah ibn Nawfal (null), Empress Jitō (645), Hassan ibn Thabit (554), Abd Manaf ibn Qusai (430), Al-Waleed bin Talal (1955), and Al-Waqidi (747). After him are Isma'il ibn Ja'far (721), Abd-Allah ibn Jahsh (580), Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf (600), Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman (600), Al-Mughira (600), and Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam (null).

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Among WRITERS In Saudi Arabia

Among writers born in Saudi Arabia, Antarah ibn Shaddad ranks 4. Before him are Jamal Khashoggi (1958), Imru' al-Qais (501), and Hassan ibn Thabit (554). After him are Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf (600), Al-Khansa (575), Ka'b ibn Zuhayr (700), Al-A'sha (570), Umar ibn Abi Rabi'ah (644), Raif Badawi (1984), Rajaa al-Sanea (1981), and Hiba Abu Nada (1991).

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