The Days

, 1929–67; The Days), the first modern Arab literary work to be acclaimed in the West.

…autobiography, Al-Ayyām (3 parts, 1929–67; The Days), and the republication of Haykal’s Zaynab in 1929. The following decade saw the appearance of works by Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm (notably ʿAwdat al-rūḥ [1933; Return of the Spirit] and Yawmiyyāt nāʾib fī al-aryāf [1937; “Diary of a Country Prosecutor”; Eng. trans. The Maze of…