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Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy

1928 - 2010

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Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (Arabic: محمد سيد طنطاوي‎; 28 October 1928 – 10 March 2010), also referred to as Tantawi, was an influential Islamic scholar in Egypt. From 1986 to 1996, he was the Grand Mufti of Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy has received more than 206,767 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 25 in 2019). Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy is the 1,459th most popular writer (up from 1,758th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 282nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy ranks 1,459 out of 7,302. Before him are Naftali Herz Imber, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Maryse Condé, Paul Rée, Elizabeth George, and Phrynichus. After him are Winifred Wagner, Marie Anne Lenormand, Tristan Corbière, Jacques Cazotte, Lu You, and Vicki Baum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy ranks 110. Before him are Seymour Papert, Torben Ulrich, Daniel Nathans, Fats Domino, Takeshi Inoue, and Malcolm Glazer. After him are Djivan Gasparyan, Al Lettieri, Paul Elvstrøm, John Stewart Bell, Daisaku Ikeda, and Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Among people deceased in 2010, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy ranks 61. Before him are Milka Planinc, Patricia Neal, John Forsythe, Hwang Jang-yop, Carlos Andrés Pérez, and Wolfgang Wagner. After him are Giulietta Simionato, Bent Larsen, Luis Corvalán, Ariel Ramírez, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, and Archduke Rudolf of Austria.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy ranks 252 out of 642. Before him are Solamish (1272), Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888), Merytre-Hatshepsut (-1500), Youssef Chahine (1926), Abd al-Aziz ibn Musa (700), and Nepherites II (-400). After him are Ammonius Hermiae (440), Samir Amin (1931), Narriman Sadek (1933), Achilles Tatius (200), Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria (444), and Ahmose (-1504).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy ranks 15. Before him are Claudian (370), Nonnus (500), Taha Hussein (1889), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Dionysius Thrax (-170), and Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888). After him are Achilles Tatius (200), Ahmed Shawqi (1868), Ibn al-Farid (1181), Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), Herodas (-300), and Edmond Jabès (1912).

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