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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 75,937 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Salama Moussa is the 3,183rd most popular writer (down from 3,037th in 2019), the 384th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 367th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 76k

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  • 51.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Salama Moussa ranks 3,183 out of 5,755. Before him are Johannes Ewald, Philippe Jaccottet, Pierre Gamarra, Tibor Déry, Charles Pinot Duclos, and Sven Aggesen. After him are Walter Map, Chariton, Eutychius of Alexandria, Dámaso Alonso, Kan Kikuchi, and Elbert Hubbard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Salama Moussa ranks 143. Before him are Pavel Postyshev, Walther Wever, Hector Hodler, Prince Gustav of Denmark, Anthony van Hoboken, and Omer Nishani. After him are Rupert Brooke, Pyotr Nesterov, Annette Kellermann, L. S. Lowry, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, and Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu. Among people deceased in 1958, Salama Moussa ranks 84. Before him are Joseph Klausner, Slobodan Jovanović, John Boland, Vittorio Ambrosio, Frédéric François-Marsal, and Christabel Pankhurst. After him are Max Jakob Friedländer, Evgeny Schwartz, Cândido Rondon, Nereu Ramos, Otto Witte, and Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Salama Moussa ranks 384 out of 582. Before him are Richard Anthony (1938), Henuttaneb (-1350), C. S. Forester (1899), Al-Mustakfi I (1285), Kamal Ganzouri (1933), and Antonios Naguib (1935). After him are Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi (1838), Eutychius of Alexandria (877), Dionysius Periegetes (100), Thrasyllus of Mendes (-100), Hassan Shehata (1947), and Pope Demetrius I of Alexandria (200).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Salama Moussa ranks 36. Before him are Ibn Taghribirdi (1410), Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), Bat Ye'or (1933), Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874), and C. S. Forester (1899). After him are Eutychius of Alexandria (877), Dionysius Periegetes (100), Georges Schehadé (1905), Doria Shafik (1908), Ammonius of Alexandria (300), and Farag Foda (1946).

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