In quest of a term to designate the creation of “ fiction ,” modern Arabic has adopted the word takhyīl —literally, “making something imaginary”—while, for fiction’s most basic parameter, irony—the interplay of knowledge and ignorance—the term mufāraqa is used. While the coinage…
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Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī (d. 1930) was an Egyptian author and journalist whose early career was inextricably bound up with that of his father Ibrāhīm al-Muwayliḥī (d. 1906). The date of his birth is the subject of debate. If Muḥammad was born in 1858, as some suggest, then his fath…
Ibrāhīm al-Muwayliḥī (1846–1906) was an Egyptian political journalist and writer born into a wealthy Egyptian family of silk merchants. When his father died in 1865 Ibrāhīm and his younger brother, ʿAbd al-Salām, took over the administration of the family business. In the same y…
