al-Māzinī, Ibrāhīm - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Al Saadi, Tania
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Ibrāhīm ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Māzinī (1890-1949) was an Egyptian writer whose fiction made a distinct contribution to the emergence of the novel in modern Arabic literature. He was also a prolific and talented essayist, a pioneer in the development of literary criticism, an accomplished translator from English, a journalist, a poet, and a dramaturgist. Al-Māzinī's writings express the feelings of a young generation of Egyptian intellectuals who experienced the political instability and changing social and cultural values that characterised the nahḍa (revival) period. His output, which