Arab Taha Hussein in rear RTL طهحسين is a Romancier, Essayiste and critical Egyptian arts person born the November 14th 1889 and dead the October 28th 1973. Called the senior of the Arab literature , it is one of the most important Arab thinkers of.
Hussein was born within a family poor in a village from the Average-Egypt in 1889. Seventh of a phratry of thirteen children, it becomes blind at the three years age, of the continuations of a badly neat conjunctivitis. This early meeting with the misdeeds of poverty and ignorance will mark it all its life. He by heart learns the Coran before leaving his village. He makes his studies at the famous religious university of Université Al-Azhar, then follows the courses of the young Egyptian laic university. By chance, it profits from a purse of state to come to continue its studies in Paris (it will support in the Sorbonne a thesis of doctorate on the thought of Ibn Khaldoun). It meets there his future wife Suzanne who helped it to learn French and read books to him. It was a big factor in the career and the life of Taha Hussein.
The return of France
When it returns from France in 1919, it works at the post of professor of history greco-Roman until in 1925. As of its return in Egypt, it was activated to modernize higher education and to instigate the cultural life of the country. He was Arab also professor of literature to the Faculty of Arts of the Cairo, senior of this faculty 1930, first vice-chancellor of the University of Alexandria, created by him in 1942, general inspector of the culture, technical adviser, under-secretary of State to the ministry for the State education, then finally Ministre for State education. An extraordinary force of will, and a great rigor allow this young blind man resulting from a modest milieu and peasant an impressive social evolution. On the literary level, it will start like many writers of Nahda, by work of translations (of which Tragedies of Sophocle). Its principal work, " Al-ayyâm" , (literally " Jours" , translated into French under the titles " The book of the jours" for the first two volumes then " The crossing intérieure" for the last) with the third nobody is an autobiography. The first volume describes the life at the edge of the Nile in the village of its childhood. It described there the early training of the loneliness which was the discrimination from which this young blind man suffered. The second volume sticks to the narration as of its years coeds in Cairo, in particular at University Al-Azhar. There still, the lucid and sharp-edged criticism of Taha Hussein will not épagnera even Al-Azhar, which however had the appearance of a true institution taboo. The last volume is held between Cairo, Paris and Montpellier, and described its years of studies in France on bottom of First World War, Parisian life, the discovery of the love, the war, its difficulties… Simplicity, lyricism, and even humor, weave the style of Taha Hussein. It marked several generations of intellectuals of the Arab Monde by pushing the modernization of the Arab literature, in particular through that of the Arab language: the sentences with him (perhaps owing to the fact that he does not write dictates his books but them with his/her daughter, with which he denies Al-ayyâm besides) acquire a greater flexibility, the vocabulary is simple and accessible. Let us note also the innovation which for the Arab novel the apprehension of the autobiographical writing like a tool for release (Andre Gide can represent, will say on this subject in its introduction to the French publication of the first two volumes: " it is there what returns this account if attaching, in spite of these wearying slownesses; a heart which suffers, which wants to live and struggles. And it is doubted if, of darkness which oppresses it, those of ignorance and the stupidity are not thicker still and frightening and mortals only those of the cécité.") Its writings are translated into several languages.
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