Ghallāb, ʿAbd al-Karīm - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Idrissi Alami, Ahmed
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ʿAbd al-Karīm Ghallāb (1919-2017), a Moroccan writer, intellectual, and journalist, was born in Fez. He pursued his studies at the Qarawiyyīn University in Fez before travelling in 1937 to Cairo, where he stayed until 1948, completing graduate studies. It was in Egypt that Ghallāb interacted with major Arab writers and critics, such as Ṭāhā Ḥusayn (1889-1973), Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm (1898-1987), ʿAbbās Maḥmūd al-ʿAqqād (1889-1969), and Muḥammad Mandūr (1907-65), among others. Because of his realistic style and representation of the transformation of Moroccan society