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Yahya of Antioch

980 - 1066

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Yahya of Antioch, full name Yaḥya ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī (Arabic: يحيى بن سعيد الأنطاكي), was a Melkite Christian physician and historian of the 11th century. He was most likely born in Fatimid Egypt. He became a physician, but the anti-Christian policies of Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (r. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yahya of Antioch has received more than 53,247 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Yahya of Antioch is the 256th most popular historian (down from 163rd in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 332nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Egyptian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Yahya of Antioch ranks 256 out of 339. Before him are Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Max Jakob Friedländer, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Lucius Coelius Antipater, Ziya Bunyadov, and William H. Prescott. After him are Guglielmo Ferrero, Al-Nuwayri, Ghazar Parpetsi, Christopher Hill, Bernard Berenson, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 980, Yahya of Antioch ranks 18. Before him are Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, Muhammad II of Córdoba, Emperor Ichijō, Izyaslav of Polotsk, Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia, and Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi. After him are Unsuri and Farrukhi Sistani. Among people deceased in 1066, Yahya of Antioch ranks 10. Before him are Stenkil, Al-Bayhaqi, Elisiv of Kiev, Muniadona of Castile, Tostig Godwinson, and Gottschalk. After him are Udayadityavarman II and Conan II, Duke of Brittany.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Yahya of Antioch ranks 394 out of 582. Before him are Thrasyllus of Mendes (-100), Hassan Shehata (1947), Pope Demetrius I of Alexandria (200), Georges Schehadé (1905), Al-Zafir (1133), and Mostafa El-Nahas (1879). After him are Zainab al Ghazali (1917), Al-Nuwayri (1279), Riccardo Freda (1909), Khenemetneferhedjet I (-1950), Hind Rostom (1929), and Doria Shafik (1908).

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Among HISTORIANS In Egypt

Among historians born in Egypt, Yahya of Antioch ranks 6. Before him are Manetho (-201), Eric Hobsbawm (1917), Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (1372), Theophylact Simocatta (580), and Al-Maqrizi (1364). After him are Al-Nuwayri (1279), Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1754), and H. A. R. Gibb (1895).

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