Taha Hussein

Taha Hussein
ON
طه حُسين
Born(1889-11-14)November 14, 1889[1]
Maghagha, Khedivate of Egypt
DiedOctober 28, 1973(1973-10-28) (aged 83)[1]
Cairo, Egypt
Awards Order of the Nile
EraModern literary theory
SchoolModernism, Classical Arabic literature, Nahda
Main interests
Classical Arabic literature, Islamic history, Mediterranean culture
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Taha Hussein (Egyptian Arabic: [ˈtˤɑːhɑ ħ(e)ˈseːn], Arabic: طه حسين; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world.[2] His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" (Arabic: عميد الأدب العربي).[3][4] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-one times.[5]

  1. ^ a b "SCIENCE\taha". Archived from the original on December 10, 2004. Retrieved December 1, 2006.
  2. ^ Ahmed, Hussam R. (2021-06-15). The Last Nahdawi: Taha Hussein and Institution Building in Egypt. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-2796-3. Archived from the original on April 23, 2022. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  3. ^ Ghanayim, M. (1994). "Mahmud Amin al-Alim: Between Politics and Literary Criticism". Poetics Today. 15 (2). Poetics Today, Vol. 15, No. 2: 321–338. doi:10.2307/1773168. JSTOR 1773168.
  4. ^ طه حسين عميد الأدب العربي: حياته، آثاره الأدبية و آراؤه (in Arabic). 1997. Archived from the original on April 23, 2022. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  5. ^ "Nomination Archive: Taha Hussein". NobelPrize.org. 2020-04-01. Archived from the original on August 14, 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-29.