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Jurji Zaydan

1861 - 1914

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Jurji Zaydan (Arabic: جرجي زيدان, ALA-LC: Jurjī Zaydān; December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine Al-Hilal, which he used to serialize his twenty three historical novels. His primary goal, as a writer and intellectual during the Nahda, was to make the common Arabic population know their own history through the entertaining medium of the novel. He has enjoyed a widespread popularity. He is also considered to have been one of the first thinkers to help formulate the theory of Arab nationalism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jurji Zaydan is the 1,714th most popular writer (down from 1,629th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Syria (down from 79th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Syrian Writer.

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Among writers, Jurji Zaydan ranks 1,714 out of 7,302. Before him are Didymus Chalcenterus, Chico Xavier, Denis Fonvizin, Rafael Sabatini, Patricia Cornwell, and Robert Harris. After him are Väinö Linna, Eleanor Hibbert, Giorgio Bassani, Frederic W. H. Myers, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, and Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Jurji Zaydan ranks 45. Before him are M. Visvesvaraya, Walter Simons, Luigi Facta, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Santiago Rusiñol, and Nellie Melba. After him are Maurice Blondel, Ivana Kobilca, Stanislas de Guaita, Juhani Aho, Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, and Louis Anquetin. Among people deceased in 1914, Jurji Zaydan ranks 39. Before him are Joseph Swan, Albert Günther, Theodor Kittelsen, George Speck, Christian Morgenstern, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf. After him are George William Hill, Julio Argentino Roca, Empress Shōken, Albéric Magnard, Ayub Khan, and Giuseppe Mercalli.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Jurji Zaydan ranks 98 out of 210. Before him are As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (1163), Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), Husni al-Za'im (1897), Bushra al-Assad (1960), Ghassan Massoud (1958), and Hussein Arnous (1953). After him are Ahmad ibn Arabshah (1389), Sergius I of Constantinople (565), Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan (1934), Vaballathus (266), Ignatius IV of Antioch (1920), and John X of Antioch (1955).

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Among WRITERS In Syria

Among writers born in Syria, Jurji Zaydan ranks 11. Before him are Adunis (1930), Andrew of Crete (660), Herodian (170), Abu Tammam (788), Cassius Longinus (213), and Usama ibn Munqidh (1095). After him are Ahmad ibn Arabshah (1389), Alciphron (200), John Moschus (550), Maryana Marrash (1848), Ghada al-Samman (1942), and Buhturi (819).

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