WRITER

Salama Moussa

1887 - 1958

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Salama Moussa (or Musa; 4 February 1887 – 4 August 1958) (Arabic: سلامه موسى pronounced [sæˈlæːmæ ˈmuːsæ], Coptic: ⲥⲁⲗⲁⲙⲁ ⲙⲱⲩⲥⲏⲥ) was an Egyptian journalist, writer and political theorist. Salama Moussa was an avowed secularist, he introduced the writings of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud to Egyptian readers. Salama Moussa campaigned against traditional religions and urged the Egyptian society to embrace European thought, he espoused the theory of evolution by natural selection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salama Moussa has received more than 82,434 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Salama Moussa is the 2,905th most popular writer (up from 3,171st in 2019), the 389th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 383rd in 2019) and the 36th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Salama Moussa ranks 2,905 out of 7,302. Before him are Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Marie Corelli, Lev Rubinstein, Jean Richepin, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and K. Shivaram Karanth. After him are Ana Blandiana, Nazik Al-Malaika, Joseph Görres, Alfred Kerr, Daniel Varoujan, and Anselm Grün.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Salama Moussa ranks 128. Before him are Abolqasem Lahouti, Otto Schniewind, Arthur Cravan, Alexander Vandegrift, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, and Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia. After him are M. N. Roy, Rudolf Beran, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., August Kork, Antonio Moreno, and Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt. Among people deceased in 1958, Salama Moussa ranks 80. Before him are Robert Donat, John Boland, Maurice Germot, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Varvara Stepanova, and Marie Stopes. After him are Yutaka Taniyama, Ronald Colman, Vittorio Ambrosio, Douglas Mawson, Henry Kuttner, and Isidora Sekulić.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Salama Moussa ranks 389 out of 642. Before him are Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (1923), Nebetah (-1350), Farag Foda (1946), Kamal Ganzouri (1933), Mostafa El-Nahas (1879), and Saif al-Adel (1960). After him are Gohar Gasparyan (1924), Antigone Costanda (1934), Al-Zafir (1133), Pishoy (320), Antonios Naguib (1935), and Pope Achillas of Alexandria (300).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Salama Moussa ranks 36. Before him are Dionysius Periegetes (100), Apion (-30), Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888), Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874), Olympiodorus of Thebes (301), and Farag Foda (1946). After him are Georges Schehadé (1905), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), Eutychius of Alexandria (877), C. S. Forester (1899), André Aciman (1951), and Malak Hifni Nasif (1886).

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