The Most Famous
WRITERS from Yemen
This page contains a list of the greatest Yemeni Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 2 of which were born in Yemen. This makes Yemen the birth place of the 121st most number of Writers behind Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Yemeni Writers of all time. This list of famous Yemeni Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Wahb ibn Munabbih (655 - 738)
With an HPI of 62.26, Wahb ibn Munabbih is the most famous Yemeni Writer. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Wahb ibn Munabbih ibn Kāmil ibn Sayj ibn Sayḥān (Arabic: وهب بن منبه بن كامل بن سيج بن سيحان), commonly known as Wahb ibn Munabbih, was a Yemeni Muslim scholar and historian of Persian descent, renowned for his ascetic lifestyle and for transmitting Judaeo-Christian traditions in early Islam. He is widely recognized for his contributions to ''isrā'īliyyāt'' and as one of the earliest collectors of prophetic Sīrah and pre-Islamic Arabian lore.
2. Nujood Ali (b. 1998)
With an HPI of 40.73, Nujood Ali is the 2nd most famous Yemeni Writer. Her biography has been translated into 28 different languages.
Nujood Ali (Arabic: نجود علي, born 1998) is a central figure in Yemen's movement against forced marriage and child marriage. At the age of ten, she obtained a divorce, breaking with the tribal tradition. In November 2008, the U.S. Women's magazine Glamour designated Nujood Ali as Woman of the Year, and associated her lawyer Shada Nasser to the same tribute. Ali's courage was praised by prominent women, including Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. Ali's lawyer Shada Nasser, born in 1964, is a feminist and specialist in human rights, whose involvement in Ali's case received much acclaim. Ali has also written a book together with French journalist Delphine Minoui called: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Yemeni writers born between 655 and 1998. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Yemeni writers include Nujood Ali. The most famous deceased Yemeni writers include Wahb ibn Munabbih.
