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Claude Cahen

1909 - 1991

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Claude Cahen (26 February 1909 – 18 November 1991) was a 20th-century French Marxist orientalist and historian. He specialized in the studies of the Islamic Middle Ages, Muslim sources about the Crusades, and social history of the medieval Islamic society (works on Futuwa orders). Claude Cahen was born in Paris to a French Jewish family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Cahen has received more than 43,781 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Cahen is the 283rd most popular historian (down from 212th in 2019), the 3,474th most popular biography from France (down from 2,982nd in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Claude Cahen ranks 283 out of 561. Before him are Régine Pernoud, Annius of Viterbo, Max Jakob Friedländer, Ibn 'Idhari, Marino Sanuto the Younger, and Iryna Melnykova. After him are Janko Prunk, Tom Segev, Ziya Bunyadov, Philipp Spitta, Ludwig von Pastor, and Ubbo Emmius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Claude Cahen ranks 178. Before him are Ashapurna Devi, Pietro Arcari, Bernhard Grzimek, Régine Pernoud, Ivo Lapenna, and Josef Košťálek. After him are Max Aub, Valentina Grizodubova, Riccardo Freda, Martin Lings, Gabrielle Roy, and Hans Erni. Among people deceased in 1991, Claude Cahen ranks 125. Before him are Jack Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Vilma Bánky, Louis Seigner, Pietro Ferraris, and Zino Francescatti. After him are Mort Shuman, Sanmao, Lea Padovani, Roy Black, Luis Miró, and Yusuf Idris.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Cahen ranks 3,474 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Effel (1908), Audrey Azoulay (1972), Pierre Mondy (1925), Jacques Lecoq (1921), Virginie Demont-Breton (1859), and Louis Faidherbe (1818). After him are Henri Brisson (1835), Georges Carpentier (1894), Henri Rabaud (1873), Francis Cabrel (1953), Guillaume Delisle (1675), and Matthias de l'Obel (1538).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Claude Cahen ranks 39. Before him are Gustave Schlumberger (1844), Charles Rollin (1661), Joseph de Guignes (1721), Émile Mâle (1862), Bernard Desclot (1201), and Régine Pernoud (1909). After him are Dudo of Saint-Quentin (960), Élisabeth Roudinesco (1944), Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930), Jean Delumeau (1923), Stéphane Courtois (1947), and André Clot (1909).

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