طه حسين

The life and characteristics of animals may seem strange and unlike those of humans and plants. However, if you look closely and reflect on them, you will find that they differ only in names and appearances; otherwise, they are a reflection of our own...

A thousand years separated Al-Mutanabbi and Taha Hussein, yet this did not prevent each of the two great writers from being in the company of the other, and this book from being with anyone who wished to draw from the wellspring of what that...

With Al-Ma'arri in His Prison Many books and studies have been written addressing various aspects of the life and philosophy of "Abul 'Ala al-Ma'arri." Scholars who have delved into his work have held conflicting opinions; he was sometimes judged as an atheist and at...

When Egypt signed the "Treaty of Honor and Independence" in 1936, Egyptians believed that their country was making steady progress towards building a modern state, and they set about drawing up plans for its advancement. Taha Hussein, from his position as a writer, thinker,...

Is there a mirror that shows a person the depths of their soul and the souls of others? For the blind writer, Taha Hussein, an ordinary mirror reflecting light would have been useless, but he managed to invent an extraordinary mirror that reflects the...

The conditions of the Arabian Peninsula were ripe for the emergence of Islam; it was as if it awaited its newborn. The new religion quickly spread with unexpected speed, after its prophet suffered oppression and warfare. Taha Hussein delves into the stages the new...

It is wonderful for one to find a time when their soul flourishes, and their thoughts and memories become pleasant, a time when they sit with themselves and for themselves, conversing honestly and reproaching themselves for what they neglected and what life's events and...

Chapters in Literature and Criticism In addition to the exceptional literary talent of the great writer "Taha Hussein," he was also a distinguished literary critic and the founder of a unique and important school of literary criticism. This school viewed texts from an objective...

This book is not solely the voice of Abul-Alaa; rather, it is a boisterous musical embrace of two unique voices in Arabic literature: the voice of the poet, or rather its echo, which has preserved its strength, vigor, and rebelliousness despite the passage of...

It is as if misery is a tree that strikes its roots deep into our souls, feeding on our days, sucking away our vitality and hopes, then bearing fruit of thorns and thistles that we are forced to chew, for there is no escape...

Taha Hussein wrote these chapters as if he were speaking to his listeners in one of his radio interviews. They came across as if they were spoken, so you read them as if he were sitting next to you, telling stories about Arab poets...

A true intellectual always feels a responsibility towards their nation and its issues. They work to present its problems, warn of their danger, and then propose necessary solutions to resolve them. This is precisely what the great writer "Taha Hussein" did throughout his life,...

The 20th century marked the beginning of a major literary renaissance, of which poetry was one of the most prominent features. Two Egyptian poets spearheaded this renaissance: Ahmed Shawqi, who became the Prince of Poets, and Hafez Ibrahim, who achieved a distinguished position among...

In this book, Taha Hussein endeavors to revive an ancient literary art form known as "epigram" (meaning "inscription" in Greek). He believes that this literary genre is well-suited to our fast-paced modern life, with its numerous responsibilities that make people prefer brevity over verbose...

Parrots that "mimic, imitate, and believe themselves to be innovators and reformers"—this was the fate that the Dean of Arabic Literature did not wish for young Arab intellectuals, whom the vocabulary of modern civilization placed in a critical confrontation between looking back and moving...

Renewing the Memory of Abu al-Alaa Taha Hussein established a distinctive critical school, adopting objectivity as its style and the scientific method as its approach and tool. He believed that any critical reading of texts required the critic to be familiar with the life...

In this book, the Dean of Arabic Literature presents a collection of essays covering a variety of topics, ranging from literary criticism and a review of the Egyptian cultural climate to a presentation of his country's social and political problems, which greatly increased before...

Colors The great writer Taha Hussein's intense desire for knowledge drove him from his youth until the last days of his life. He would spend long hours daily listening to his assistants or colleagues read to him whatever books he wished, and even after...

There is no doubt that this book sparked such controversy that it came to be considered one of the most famous books of the twentieth century. In it, the author argued against the legitimacy of "pre-Islamic poetry" belonging to its era, claiming it was...

They are two complementary biographies: a personal autobiography of the writer, and a biography of the author, and at the same time, it is an artistic novel that relies on imagination, digression, suspense, and the art of eloquent expression and the rhetoric of imagery;...