ʿAlī al-Jārim (1881-1949) was an Egyptian poet, fiction writer, linguist, and pedagogue. He was born in Rashīd (Rosetta) to a learned father who was a sharīʿa judge. He studied at al-Azhar with Muḥammad ʿAbduh (d. 1905), the principal proponent of reformist Islam in Egypt, among others, and then at Dār al-ʿUlūm, the teachers' college in Cairo. He later spent some four years in England on an Egyptian scholarship, studying pedagogy and psychology. On his return to Egypt he first taught at his alma mater, Dār al-