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Aisha Taymur

1840 - 1902

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Aisha E'ismat Taymur (Arabic: عائشة عصمت تيمور‎ or 'A'isha al-Taymuriyya عائشة التيمورية‎; 1840–1902) was an Egyptian social activist, poet, novelist, and feminist in the Ottoman era. She was active in the early 19th century in the field of women's rights. Her writings came out in a period of time where women in Egypt were realizing that they were being deprived of some of the rights that Islam granted them. Taymur was one of the earliest Arab women to be alive while her poetry and other writings were recognized and published in modern times. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aisha Taymur is the 3,574th most popular writer (up from 4,060th in 2019), the 426th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 464th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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Among writers, Aisha Taymur ranks 3,574 out of 7,302. Before her are Tarafa, Gyula Krúdy, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Chittaranjan Das, Russell Banks, and Marilyn French. After her are Yuri Rytkheu, Thomas Corneille, Musine Kokalari, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dorothea Viehmann, and E. W. Hornung.

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Among people born in 1840, Aisha Taymur ranks 60. Before her are Thomas Nast, Helena Modjeska, Gall, Titu Maiorescu, Francišak Bahuševič, and Adolf Bernhard Meyer. After her are Ferdinand Sarrien, Émile Duclaux, Victorino de la Plaza, Célestine Galli-Marié, Yaa Asantewaa, and Kazimierz Alchimowicz. Among people deceased in 1902, Aisha Taymur ranks 50. Before her are Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Gustave Trouvé, Walter Hauser, and Eduard von Toll. After her are Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, Salomon Jadassohn, Andrejs Pumpurs, Bret Harte, and Gleb Uspensky.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Aisha Taymur ranks 426 out of 642. Before her are Zubaida Tharwat (1940), Sayf al-Din Khushqadam (1413), Pope Theonas of Alexandria (300), Hind Rostom (1929), Pope John I of Alexandria (450), and Guy Béart (1930). After her are Albert Cossery (1913), Pope Achillas of Alexandria (300), Zainab al Ghazali (1917), Mostafa El-Nahas (1879), Alaa Al Aswany (1957), and Sobekemsaf I (-1650).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Aisha Taymur ranks 38. Before her are Dionysius Periegetes (100), Malak Hifni Nasif (1886), Farag Foda (1946), Apion (-30), Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874), and C. S. Forester (1899). After her are Albert Cossery (1913), Alaa Al Aswany (1957), André Aciman (1951), Georges Schehadé (1905), Hafez Ibrahim (1872), and Bat Ye'or (1933).

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