Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal
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Arabic literatureThe novelThe author, Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal, had written the work while studying in France, and the influence of a variety of European Romantic narrative traditions is very clear. Elsewhere within the region, novel writing was initiated at a later date: in Iraq by Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Sayyid with Fī…
Read MoreThe author, Muḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal, had written the work while studying in France, and the influence of a variety of European Romantic narrative traditions is very clear. Elsewhere within the region, novel writing was initiated at a later date: in Iraq by Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Sayyid with Fī…
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Islamic artsProseMuḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal (died 1956), a leading figure of Egyptian cultural and political life and the author of numerous historical studies, touched on the difficulties of Egyptian villagers for the first time, in his novel Zaynab (1913). This subject became fashionable quickly afterward, although not…
Read MoreMuḥammad Ḥusayn Haykal (died 1956), a leading figure of Egyptian cultural and political life and the author of numerous historical studies, touched on the difficulties of Egyptian villagers for the first time, in his novel Zaynab (1913). This subject became fashionable quickly afterward, although not…
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