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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 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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  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Syria

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).

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Among WRITERS In Syria

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).

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