ʿAbd al-Quddūs, Iḥsān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Hafez, Sabry
Leiden
Brill
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Iḥsān ʿAbd al-Quddūs (1919-90), a prolific Egyptian writer of novels and short stories and columnist for the newspaper al-Ahrām , was born to an artistic middle-class family. His father, Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Quddūs, abandoned his profession as an engineer for a career as an actor and writer for the stage and later the cinema. His mother, Fāṭima al-Yūsuf, renowned as Rūz al-Yūsuf, was the prima donna of the Egyptian theatre. In 1925 she also established a political and cultural weekly to which she gave her