al-Miṭwī, Muḥammad al-ʿArūsī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Omri, Mohamed-Salah
Leiden
Brill
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Muḥammad al-ʿArūsī al-Miṭwī (b. 19 January 1920, d. 25 July 2005) was a Tunisian novelist, literary critic, and politician. His most celebrated works include the short novels Wa-min al-ḍaḥāyā ("And among the victims," 1957), Ḥalīma , (1964); and al-Tūt al-murr ("Bitter mulberries," 1967). The third of these works, which remains his best-known work outside Tunisia, is a realist political novel, laced with a love story, that tackles problems of drug consumption and attachment to the homeland. Ḥalīma tells the story of an eponymous female