WRITER

Francis Marrash

1837 - 1873

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Francis bin Fathallah bin Nasrallah Marrash (Arabic: فرنسيس بن فتح الله بن نصر الله مرّاش, ALA-LC: Fransīs bin Fatḥ Allāh bin Naṣr Allāh Marrāsh; 1835, 1836, or 1837 – 1873 or 1874), also known as Francis al-Marrash or Francis Marrash al-Halabi, was a Syrian scholar, publicist, writer and poet of the Nahda or the Arab Renaissance, and a physician. Most of his works revolve around science, history and religion, analysed under an epistemological light. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Marrash has received more than 109,020 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Francis Marrash is the 3,792nd most popular writer (up from 4,257th in 2019), the 145th most popular biography from Syria (down from 142nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Syrian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Francis Marrash ranks 3,792 out of 7,302. Before him are Lise Nørgaard, Johannes Bobrowski, Gordon R. Dickson, Viveca Sten, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, and Walter Kempowski. After him are Israel Zangwill, Zhou Zuoren, Diphilus, Remmius Palaemon, Antonio Buero Vallejo, and Kalhana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Francis Marrash ranks 74. Before him are Dwight L. Moody, Henry Becque, Altaf Hussain Hali, Theodore Gill, Amelia Dyer, and Ignatz Kolisch. After him are Wilhelm Kühne, Jorge Isaacs, Charles Yerkes, Tigran Chukhajian, Mary Harris Jones, and Elizabeth Jane Gardner. Among people deceased in 1873, Francis Marrash ranks 50. Before him are Mary Ann Cotton, Auguste Couder, Edward Blyth, Edwin Landseer, Spyridon Trikoupis, and Gheorghe Bibescu. After him are Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Christopher Hansteen, Charles Dupin, and Eugène Flachat.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Francis Marrash ranks 145 out of 210. Before him are Sami al-Hinnawi (1898), Ignatius Joseph III Yonan (1944), Buhturi (819), Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (1855), Rezin (null), and Salim Idris (1957). After him are Akram al-Hawrani (1912), Abu Shama (1203), Jacob of Edessa (633), Ameen Rihani (1876), George Sabra (1947), and Wafa Sultan (1958).

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Among WRITERS In Syria

Among writers born in Syria, Francis Marrash ranks 20. Before him are John Moschus (550), Elia Abu Madi (1890), Maryana Marrash (1848), Ghada al-Samman (1942), Buhturi (819), and Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (1855). After him are Jacob of Edessa (633), Ameen Rihani (1876), Wafa Sultan (1958), Rafik Schami (1946), Zakaria Tamer (1931), and Samar Yazbek (1970).

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