WRITER

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad

1923 - 1969

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Seyyed Jalāl Āl-e-Ahmad (Persian: جلال آل‌احمد; December 2, 1923 – September 9, 1969) was a prominent Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator, philosopher, socio-political critic, sociologist, as well as an anthropologist who was "one of the earliest and most prominent of contemporary Iranian ethnographers". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jalal Al-e-Ahmad has received more than 189,626 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jalal Al-e-Ahmad is the 3,531st most popular writer (down from 3,525th in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from Iran (down from 289th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.76

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  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 3,531 out of 7,302. Before him are Nikolay Ogarev, Helena Roerich, Ryōtarō Shiba, Rutka Laskier, Laza Lazarević, and Tsubouchi Shōyō. After him are Molla Panah Vagif, Kim Stanley Robinson, Jozef Miloslav Hurban, Françoise Giroud, Donald Barthelme, and Xiao Hong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 220. Before him are Bryce DeWitt, Leon Niemczyk, Jean Delumeau, William Guarnere, Lydia Clarke, and Ryōtarō Shiba. After him are Gordon Jackson, Michael V. Gazzo, Murray Hamilton, Misael Pastrana Borrero, Juan Arza, and Juvenal Amarijo. Among people deceased in 1969, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 118. Before him are José María Arguedas, Gerhard Mitter, Madhubala, Serge Poliakoff, Leopold von Wiese, and Ilse Steppat. After him are Karl Kaufmann, Mutesa II of Buganda, Simon Vratsian, Al Taliaferro, Volmari Iso-Hollo, and Gunnar Andersson.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 314 out of 631. Before him are Ali Akbar Velayati (1945), Sayed Morad Khan (1800), Majid Majidi (1959), Shaun Toub (1963), Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), and Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (1931). After him are Farrokhroo Parsa (1922), Kamal-ol-molk (1848), Ibn Bibi (1250), Abdolkarim Soroush (1945), Sami Yusuf (1980), and Mohammad Ali Fardin (1930).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 42. Before him are Mastoureh Ardalan (1805), Sohrab Sepehri (1928), Kader Abdolah (1954), Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), and Azar Nafisi (1955). After him are Ibn Bibi (1250), Simin Behbahani (1927), Samad Behrangi (1939), Cassandra Clare (1973), Simin Daneshvar (1921), and Iraj Mirza (1874).

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