WRITER

Taha Hussein

1889 - 1973

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Taha Hussein (Egyptian Arabic: [ˈtˤɑːhɑ ħ(e)ˈseːn], Arabic: طه حسين; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Taha Hussein has received more than 685,754 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Taha Hussein is the 748th most popular writer (up from 940th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Egypt (up from 172nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Egyptian Writer.

Taha Hussein is best known for his autobiographical work, The Days, which tells the story of his life from his birth in 1883 to his death in 1973.

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  • 690k

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  • 63.75

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Le livre des jours
1984
Future of Culture in Egypt
1969
The Sufferers
1993
An Egyptian Childhood
1981
An Egyptian Childhood (Modern Arabic Writing)
Biography & Autobiography
The author recounts his experiences growing up in a small village in Upper Egypt, coming to terms with his blindness, and qualifying for study at al-Azhar University in Cairo
1992
La traversée intérieure
1992
Qiṣaṣ tamthīlīyah
1981
Days
Authors, arab, Authors, biography, Husayn, taha, 1889-1973
2001
Future of Culture in Egypt
1969
Man of Letters
Arabic literature, translations into english
2014
The Sufferers
1993
An Egyptian Childhood
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Taha Hussein ranks 748 out of 7,302. Before him are Berossus, Edmond de Goncourt, Theognis of Megara, A. J. Cronin, Felix Salten, and Sven Hassel. After him are Aelius Donatus, Christa Wolf, Clemens Brentano, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, and Ulrich von Hutten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Taha Hussein ranks 30. Before him are Risto Ryti, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Zalman Shazar, Pitirim Sorokin, Vasily Blyukher, and Mercédès Jellinek. After him are Victor Fleming, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, Edgar Adrian, Walter Lippmann, and Abel Gance. Among people deceased in 1973, Taha Hussein ranks 42. Before him are Luis Carrero Blanco, Walter Rudolf Hess, Gerard Kuiper, Jean-Pierre Melville, Amílcar Cabral, and François Cevert. After him are A. S. Neill, Lex Barker, Dickinson W. Richards, Ingeborg Bachmann, W. H. Auden, and Edward G. Robinson.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Taha Hussein ranks 152 out of 642. Before him are Senenmut (-1600), Intef I (-2200), Nawal El Saadawi (1931), Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (1923), Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927), and Apries (-650). After him are Theophylact Simocatta (580), Ptolemy X Alexander I (-140), Arsinoe IV of Egypt (-68), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Ptolemy Keraunos (-318), and Georges Moustaki (1934).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Taha Hussein ranks 11. Before him are Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Lactantius (250), Constantine P. Cavafy (1863), Athenaeus (200), Claudian (370), and Nonnus (500). After him are Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Dionysius Thrax (-170), Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888), Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928), Achilles Tatius (200), and Ahmed Shawqi (1868).

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