ʿAbdallāh, Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Hafez, Sabry
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Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ʿAbdallāh (1913-70) was a prominent Egyptian romantic novelist of the mid-twentieth century. He was born in a small village in the western Nile Delta and moved to Cairo to study Arabic at university. He graduated in 1935, returned home, and started his career as an Arabic-language teacher before moving back to Cairo in 1951 to work for the Majmaʿ al-Lugha al-ʿArabiyya, the Arabic Language Academy (ALA), where he remained until his death in 1970. ʿAbdallāh started writing as early as 1937