1861 - 1914
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 113,467 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jurji Zaydan is the 1,730th most popular writer (up from 1,828th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Syria (down from 45th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Syrian Writer.
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Among writers, Jurji Zaydan ranks 1,730 out of 5,755. Before him are Dexippus, Sæmundr fróði, Cristóbal de Morales, Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Konstantin Ushinsky, and Sophie de Condorcet. After him are Pierre Plantard, Constantijn Huygens, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Horacio Quiroga, Edward Lear, and João de Barros.
210 - 278
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 1,724
1056 - 1133
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 1,725
1600 - 1655
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 1,726
1874 - 1938
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 1,727
1823 - 1870
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,728
1764 - 1822
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 1,729
1861 - 1914
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,730
1920 - 2000
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,731
1596 - 1687
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,732
1916 - 1992
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 1,733
1878 - 1937
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 1,734
1812 - 1888
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 1,735
1496 - 1570
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 1,736
Among people born in 1861, Jurji Zaydan ranks 50. Before him are Motilal Nehru, Santiago Rusiñol, Konstantin Korovin, Maurice Blondel, Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Louis Anquetin. After him are Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, Stanislas de Guaita, Vazha-Pshavela, Juhani Aho, Eduard, Duke of Anhalt, and Madan Mohan Malaviya. Among people deceased in 1914, Jurji Zaydan ranks 37. Before him are Theodor Kittelsen, Christian Morgenstern, Anatoly Lyadov, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, and Giuseppe Mercalli. After him are Charles Martin Hall, Julio Argentino Roca, Theodor Lipps, Louis Couturat, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, and George William Hill.
1861 - 1931
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 44
1861 - 1931
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 45
1861 - 1939
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 46
1861 - 1949
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 47
1861 - 1922
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 48
1861 - 1932
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 49
1861 - 1914
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 50
1861 - 1929
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 51
1861 - 1897
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 52
1861 - 1915
HPI: 55.14
Rank: 53
1861 - 1921
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 54
1861 - 1918
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 55
1861 - 1946
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 56
1857 - 1914
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 31
1871 - 1914
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 32
1855 - 1914
HPI: 57.71
Rank: 33
1826 - 1914
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 34
1824 - 1914
HPI: 57.20
Rank: 35
1850 - 1914
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 36
1861 - 1914
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 37
1863 - 1914
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 38
1843 - 1914
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 39
1851 - 1914
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 40
1868 - 1914
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 41
1827 - 1914
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 42
1838 - 1914
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 43
Among people born in Syria, Jurji Zaydan ranks 75 out of 181. Before him are Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan (1080), Nureddin al-Atassi (1929), Sergius I of Constantinople (565), Sabah Fakhri (1933), Thierry, Count of Flanders (1100), and Duqaq (1100). After him are Ibn Asakir (1105), Gregory III Laham (1933), Evagrius Scholasticus (536), Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din (1170), Al-Qa'im (893), and Anisa Makhlouf (1930).
1080 - 1113
HPI: 56.84
Rank: 69
1929 - 1992
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 70
565 - 638
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 71
1933 - 2021
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 72
1100 - 1168
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 73
1100 - 1104
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 74
1861 - 1914
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 75
1105 - 1176
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 76
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 77
536 - 594
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 78
1170 - 1225
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 79
893 - 946
HPI: 55.86
Rank: 80
1930 - 2016
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 81
Among writers born in Syria, Jurji Zaydan ranks 10. Before him are Herodian (170), Andrew of Crete (660), Nizar Qabbani (1923), Khaled al-Asaad (1932), Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), and Abu Tammam (788). After him are Ahmad ibn Arabshah (1389), Alciphron (200), Cassius Longinus (213), John Moschus (550), Buhturi (819), and Elia Abu Madi (1890).
170 - 250
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 4
660 - 740
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 5
1923 - 1998
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 6
1932 - 2015
HPI: 57.86
Rank: 7
1095 - 1188
HPI: 57.50
Rank: 8
788 - 846
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 9
1861 - 1914
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 10
1389 - 1450
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 11
200 - 200
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 12
213 - 273
HPI: 54.48
Rank: 13
550 - 619
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 14
819 - 897
HPI: 50.93
Rank: 15
1890 - 1957
HPI: 50.59
Rank: 16