Allen, Roger

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Originally published in 1983, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature was the first general survey of the field to have been published in English for over fifty years and the first attempted in such detail in a multi-volume form. The volumes of the History provide an invaluab…

Najīb Maḥfūẓ (10 December 1911–30 August 2006) was Egypt's most prominent writer of fictional narratives in the twentieth century. In 1988 he was the first Arab author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1. Life Maḥfūẓ was born in the Jamāliyya quarter in the old city o…

Yūsuf Idrīs (1927–91) was an Egyptian writer and one of the most significant contributors to the development of the short-story genre in Arabic. He also wrote a number of plays and novels, and was a major and often controversial participant in the cultural life of his homeland. …