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Évariste Lévi-Provençal

1894 - 1956

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Évariste Lévi-Provençal (4 January 1894 – 27 March 1956) was a French medievalist, orientalist, Arabist, and historian of Islam. The scholar who would take the name Lévi-Provençal was born 4 January 1894 in Constantine, French Algeria, as Makhlóuf Evariste Levi (Arabic: مخلوف إفاريست ليفي), his second name revealing that his North-African Jewish family was already somewhat Gallicized. By the age of nineteen when he published his first paper he had rechristened himself Évariste Lévi-Provençal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Évariste Lévi-Provençal has received more than 38,561 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Évariste Lévi-Provençal is the 205th most popular historian (up from 209th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 74th in 2019) and the most popular Algerian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 205 out of 339. Before him are Yitzhak Arad, Henri Maspero, Halil İnalcık, Antiochus of Syracuse, Krste Misirkov, and Sigfried Giedion. After him are Vasily Klyuchevsky, Fritz Fischer, Ahmad Kasravi, Philochorus, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, and William of Malmesbury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 115. Before him are Varvara Stepanova, Sofoklis Venizelos, Yury Tynyanov, Jerzy Neyman, Jack Thayer, and Kyuichi Tokuda. After him are Augustín Malár, Pavel Rybalko, Âşık Veysel, Werner March, Khawaja Nazimuddin, and Saken Seifullin. Among people deceased in 1956, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 97. Before him are André Marty, Carl Brockelmann, Louis Rosier, Marcel Griaule, Max Beerbohm, and Mohammed Hussein Heikal. After him are Stan Ockers, Israel Zolli, Elpidio Quirino, Zoltán Halmay, Eduardo Lonardi, and Tommy Dorsey.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 77 out of 184. Before him are Abdelhamid Ben Badis (1889), Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578), Françoise Fabian (1933), Ahmed Ouyahia (1952), Émile Boirac (1851), and Ibn Manzur (1233). After him are Abdelmalek Sellal (1948), Thelma Schoonmaker (1940), Yasmina Khadra (1955), Alexandre Villaplane (1905), Patrick Bruel (1959), and Abdelaziz Djerad (1954).

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Among HISTORIANS In Algeria

Among historians born in Algeria, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 1. After him are Albert Soboul (1914).

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