WRITER

Jurji Zaydan

1861 - 1914

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Jurji Zaydan (Arabic: جرجي زيدان, ALA-LC: Jurjī Zaydān; December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine Al-Hilal, which he used to serialize his twenty three historical novels. His primary goal, as a writer and intellectual during the Nahda, was to make the common Arabic population know their own history through the entertaining medium of the novel. He has enjoyed a widespread popularity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jurji Zaydan has received more than 125,321 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jurji Zaydan is the 1,630th most popular writer (up from 1,726th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Syria (down from 75th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Syrian Writer.

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  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jurji Zaydan ranks 1,630 out of 7,302. Before him are Adamantios Korais, Sebastian Haffner, Gore Vidal, Anonymus, Oribasius, and Posidippus. After him are Ludwig Börne, Fernando del Paso, Ivan Klíma, Péter Nádas, Ira Levin, and Avraham Stern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Jurji Zaydan ranks 44. Before him are Michel Verne, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Dorothea Klumpke, M. Visvesvaraya, Stanislas de Guaita, and Maurice Blondel. After him are William C. Durant, Santiago Rusiñol, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, Meir Dizengoff, and John William Godward. Among people deceased in 1914, Jurji Zaydan ranks 33. Before him are Joseph Chamberlain, Louis Couturat, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, John Tenniel, Joseph Swan, and Anatoly Lyadov. After him are Christian Morgenstern, Theodor Kittelsen, Theodor Lipps, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Giuseppe Mercalli, and Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Jurji Zaydan ranks 79 out of 210. Before him are Ibn al-Shatir (1304), Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), Shukri al-Quwatli (1891), Anisa Makhlouf (1930), Mariam al-Asturlabi (950), and Al-Qa'im (893). After him are Ghassan Massoud (1958), Sergius I of Constantinople (565), Thierry, Count of Flanders (1100), Vaballathus (266), Hussein Arnous (1953), and Salah Jadid (1926).

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Among WRITERS In Syria

Among writers born in Syria, Jurji Zaydan ranks 10. Before him are Nizar Qabbani (1923), Andrew of Crete (660), Herodian (170), Khaled al-Asaad (1932), Abu Tammam (788), and Usama ibn Munqidh (1095). After him are Cassius Longinus (213), Alciphron (200), Ahmad ibn Arabshah (1389), John Moschus (550), Elia Abu Madi (1890), and Maryana Marrash (1848).

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