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Tawfiq al-Hakim. Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim ( Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ALA-LC: Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama.
Born: October 9, 1898, Alexandria, Egypt. Died: July 26, 1987, Cairo (aged 88) Notable Works: “Ahl al-kahf”. “The Maze of Justice”. Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm (born October 9, 1898, Alexandria, Egypt—died July 26, 1987, Cairo) was the founder of contemporary Egyptian drama and a leading figure in modern Arabic literature.
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El-Enany, Rasheed. “Tawfiq al-Hakim and the West: A New Assessment of the Relationship.”. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 27, no. 2 (November, 2000): 165-175. An analysis of one of ...
Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm. Beginning in the 1930s, Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm composed a series of lengthy plays based on themes culled from Greek legend, the Qurʾān, and Middle Eastern history in order to create a dramatic literature that was acceptable to the critical establishment in Egypt and beyond, particularly with regard to its merit as ...
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Analysis. Although Tawfiq al-Hakim’s dramatic imagination ranged across at least three millennia of human experience, touching down at particularly evocative points along the way, some ...
Tawfiq al-Hakim's novel Maze of Justice when I was in high school and my consequent admiration for its author. I still recall how his dark humor and sarcasm made me burst into laughter. I have thought of him ever since as a humorist, until only a few years ago, when I began to detect another important dimension in his writings. That new dimension
of Justice). His later career as a successful man of letters is described in many works, notably in Himar al-Hakim (1940). Al-Hakim was born in Alexandria in 1898, to a fairly well-to-do family: his father became a judge after a succession of minor legal posts and, under the influence of his haughty wife who prided herself on her Turkish ...
