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Umayya ibn Abd Shams

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Umayya ibn Abd Shams (Arabic: أمية بن عبد شمس) was the son of Abd Shams and is the progenitor of the line of the Umayyad caliphs. Anti-Umayyad polemic says that his name is derived from 'afa', a diminutive of the word for slave-girl, and instead of being the legitimate son of Abd Shams, Ibn al-Kalbi claims that he was adopted by him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Umayya ibn Abd Shams has received more than 250,955 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Umayya ibn Abd Shams is the 7,368th most popular politician.

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  • 250k

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  • 55.33

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Umayya ibn Abd Shams ranks 7,368 out of 15,577Before him are Zhenjin, Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, Firuz Shah Tughlaq, Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Gulzarilal Nanda, and Malyuta Skuratov. After him are Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Bernhard Schmidt, Theophano Martinakia, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, and Bettino Ricasoli.

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