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Salama Moussa

1887 - 1958

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Salama Moussa (or Musa; 4 February 1887 – 4 August 1958) (Arabic: سلامه موسى pronounced [sæˈlæːmæ ˈmuːsæ], Coptic: ⲥⲁⲗⲁⲙⲁ ⲙⲱⲩⲥⲏⲥ) was an Egyptian journalist, writer and political theorist. Salama Moussa was an avowed secularist, he introduced the writings of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud to Egyptian readers. Salama Moussa campaigned against traditional religions and urged the Egyptian society to embrace European thought, he espoused the theory of evolution by natural selection. He was an Egyptian nationalist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salama Moussa is the 2,782nd most popular writer (up from 2,905th in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 389th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Salama Moussa ranks 2,782 out of 7,302Before him are Olympiodorus of Thebes, Commodian, Kekaumenos, Thomas Otway, Sextus Pompeius Festus, and Leandro Fernández de Moratín. After him are Countess of Ségur, Shakuntala Devi, Lars Norén, Taliesin, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, and Vince Gilligan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Salama Moussa ranks 123Before him are Kurt Atterberg, Jean Ray, Sydir Kovpak, Arthur Percival, Simon Kimbangu, and Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu. After him are Otto Schniewind, Şükrü Saracoğlu, Walther Wever, Paula von Preradović, Vincent Massey, and Jean Patou. Among people deceased in 1958, Salama Moussa ranks 80Before him are Yutaka Taniyama, Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium, Goro Yamada, Isidora Sekulić, Maurice Germot, and Roger Byrne. After him are László Hudec, Robert Donat, Alexandre Tuffère, Marie Stopes, Varvara Stepanova, and Stuart Lewis-Evans.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Salama Moussa ranks 375 out of 642Before him are Lysandra (-300), Osorkon III (-900), Al-Mustakfi I (1285), Nikare (-2200), Hazem El Beblawi (1936), and Olympiodorus of Thebes (301). After him are Tiberius Julius Alexander (100), Maximus I of Constantinople (350), Doria Shafik (1908), Essam Sharaf (1952), Julius Pollux (200), and Nebetah (-1350).

Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Salama Moussa ranks 30Before him are Ibn Taghribirdi (1410), Edmond Jabès (1912), Zosimos of Panopolis (250), Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898), Apollonius Dyscolus (200), and Olympiodorus of Thebes (301). After him are Doria Shafik (1908), Dionysius Periegetes (100), Malak Hifni Nasif (1886), Farag Foda (1946), Apion (-30), and Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874).