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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. He studied at the Lycée in Constantine, and served in the French army during World War I, being wounded in the Dardanelles in 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Évariste Lévi-Provençal is the 189th most popular historian (up from 195th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Algeria (up from 76th in 2019) and the most popular Algerian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 189 out of 561. Before him are Ferdinand Gregorovius, Christopher Browning, Pulakeshin II, Ibn Abd al-Hakam, Linda Nochlin, and Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. After him are Ernst Kantorowicz, Krste Misirkov, Henri Maspero, Ibn Wahshiyya, Alexander Kazhdan, and Aulus Cremutius Cordus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 101. Before him are Jerzy Neyman, Pavel Rybalko, Ottavio Bottecchia, Alexander Lippisch, Ivan Isakov, and Georges Guynemer. After him are Claude Cahun, Friedrich Pollock, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia, Goro Yamada, and Ángel Romano. Among people deceased in 1956, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 91. Before him are Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Mikheil Gelovani, Ernst Robert Curtius, Alexander Fadeyev, Israel Zolli, and Auguste Chevalier. After him are Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, André Marty, Carl Brockelmann, Jimmie Angel, Clifford Brown, and Norman L. Bowen.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Évariste Lévi-Provençal ranks 74 out of 213. Before him are Kusaila (640), Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1934), Lakhdar Brahimi (1934), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Roger Hanin (1925), and Ahmed Ouyahia (1952). After him are Mohammed Dib (1920), Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi (1787), Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre (1810), Abdelmalek Sellal (1948), Émile Boirac (1851), and Françoise Arnoul (1931).

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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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