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Taha Hussein
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Taha Hussein (1889–1973) was an Egyptian linguist, translator, writer, and literary critic. Born in Minya Governorate, he received his education at Al-Azhar University, Cairo University, and the University of Montpellier, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy. He served as a professor at Cairo University and was a recipient of the Order of Merit, the Order of Civil Merit of the Syrian Arab Republic, the Order of the Republic, and the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. Hussein was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
His notable works include *On Pre-Islamic Poetry*, *Egyptian Childhood*, *Grande Epreuve*, *Au-delà du Nil*, *Man of Letters*, and *Days*. He spoke Arabic, French, Latin, and English. Hussein was blind and identified as a Muslim. He died in Cairo.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 15
Top works
- Egyptian Childhood
- Grande Epreuve
- Au-delà du Nil (French Edition)
- Man of Letters
- Days
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Egypt
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1973-04-03
- Active to
- 2015-07-10
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 9
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Taha+Hussein">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,010x
- Apixaban versus Warfarin in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
· 2011 · cited 7,536x
- Mutational landscape determines sensitivity to PD-1 blockade in non–small cell lung cancer
· 2015 · cited 6,933x
- UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023
· 2022 · cited 6,757x
- UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021
· 2020 · cited 6,036x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Knowledge is like water and air: it is every citizen's right to enjoy it for free.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1889-11-14 ) November 14, 1889 , Maghagha , Khedivate of Egypt
- Died
- October 28, 1973 (1973-10-28) (aged 83) , Cairo , Egypt
- Awards
- Order of the Nile
- Era
- Modern literary theory
- School
- Modernism Classical Arabic literature Nahda
- Main interests
- Classical Arabic literature Islamic history Mediterranean culture
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Taha Hussein (Arabic: طه حسين, romanized: Ṭaha Ḥusayn, Egyptian Arabic: [ˈtˤɑːhɑ ħ(e)ˈseːn]; 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. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" (Arabic: عميد الأدب العربي, romanized: ʿAmīd al-Adab al-ʿArabī). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-one times.
Early life
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