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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 40,407 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Claude Cahen is the 212th most popular historian, the 2,992nd most popular biography from France and the 28th most popular French Historian.

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  • 40k

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  • 52.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Claude Cahen ranks 212 out of 339. Before him are Vasily Klyuchevsky, Fritz Fischer, Ahmad Kasravi, Philochorus, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, and William of Malmesbury. After him are Christian Gottlob Heyne, Joseph Klausner, Michael Glykas, Slobodan Jovanović, Reinhart Dozy, and George Buchanan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Claude Cahen ranks 149. Before him are W. Montgomery Watt, Burl Ives, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Marion Dönhoff, Géza Toldi, and Bernhard Grzimek. After him are Sutan Sjahrir, Henri Alekan, Leyla Mammadbeyova, Reuven Shiloah, Hans Hotter, and Ashapurna Devi. Among people deceased in 1991, Claude Cahen ranks 102. Before him are Metin Oktay, Mikheil Meskhi, Antoine Berman, Helmut Walcha, Schubert Gambetta, and Zino Francescatti. After him are Gino Colaussi, Artur Lundkvist, Daigoro Kondo, Miodrag Bulatović, Ho Jong-suk, and Amadou Hampâté Bâ.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Cahen ranks 2,992 out of 6,011. Before him are Camille Guérin (1872), Charles Angrand (1854), Gérard Blain (1930), Zino Francescatti (1902), Déodat de Séverac (1872), and Georges Descrières (1930). After him are Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825), Valery Larbaud (1881), William IX, Count of Poitiers (1153), Charles-Louis Philippe (1874), Jacques Delille (1738), and Pierre Robert Olivétan (1505).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Claude Cahen ranks 28. Before him are Adémar de Chabannes (989), René Grousset (1885), Roger Chartier (1945), Bernard Desclot (1201), Edgar Quinet (1803), and Henri Maspero (1883). After him are Georges Lefebvre (1874), Joseph de Guignes (1721), Paul Veyne (1930), Marc Ferro (1924), Charles Rollin (1661), and Gustave Schlumberger (1844).

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