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Avi Shlaim

1945 - Today

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Avi Shlaim (born 31 October 1945) is an Israeli and British historian of Iraqi Jewish descent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Avi Shlaim has received more than 353,166 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Avi Shlaim is the 420th most popular historian (up from 433rd in 2019), the 320th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 306th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Iraqi Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Avi Shlaims by language

Over the past year Avi Shlaim has had the most page views in the with 174,410 views, followed by German (11,315), and Hebrew (10,625). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (619.28%), Spanish (594.71%), and German (498.68%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Avi Shlaim ranks 420 out of 561. Before him are Boris Chicherin, Neagu Djuvara, Heinrich Ewald, Thomas Walker Arnold, Isabella Bashmakova, and Yehuda Bauer. After him are Eadmer, Ilya Berezin, ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni, Alain Daniélou, G. M. Trevelyan, and Frederic G. Kenyon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Avi Shlaim ranks 425. Before him are Giuseppe Wilson, Raila Odinga, Francisco Sá, Portia Simpson-Miller, Peter Pace, and Tony Kaye. After him are Wyomia Tyus, Göran Claeson, Gordon Thomson, José Luis Romero, Charles Greene, and Mladen Ramljak.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Avi Shlaim ranks 320 out of 384. Before him are Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi (1948), Mullah Krekar (1956), Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750), Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (1931), David Sassoon (1792), and Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (1967). After him are Shlomo Hillel (1923), Puzur-Ashur I (-2050), Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (1980), Eriba-Adad II (-1100), Hoshyar Zebari (1953), and Ahmet Haşim (1887).

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Among HISTORIANS In Iraq

Among historians born in Iraq, Avi Shlaim ranks 7. Before him are Al-Baladhuri (806), Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (1002), Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737), Ibn Wahshiyya (900), Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (1145), and Khalifah ibn Khayyat (777).

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