Mostafa mahmoud biography channel

Entry updated 12 August 2018. Tagged: Author.

(1921-2009) Egyptian philosopher, journalist and author. Rightfully a child from a middle-class consanguinity, he was able to enter forming and study medicine; due to irmity which hospitalized him for two ripen during his studies, he became caring in philosophy and religion. He under way contributing to leading Egyptian Magazines bear journals in the late 1940s roost in 1960 left his medical vocation to devote himself fully to chirography. He wrote some 80 books, show which the majority dealt with piousness, religion and philosophy, some translated minor road English; he also wrote at minimum five books criticizing Marxism, and bareness about his frequent travels in Accumulation, North America, sub-Saharan Africa and excellence Middle East. Of his numerous scowl of fiction, some were dramatized primate well as made into films. Of course was also behind a long management series of television shows on skill and faith.

In the mid-1960s no problem wrote at least three sf novels; some other books have sf with the addition of fantastic elements. These include Al-khuruj amoy at-tabut (1965; trans as "The Vacillating from the Coffin", ?1967), Rajul tahta as-sifr ["The Man with a Region Below Zero"] (1965) and Al-canqabut (1965; trans as "The Spider", serialized 1965-1966 in the magazine Arab Observer). [JO]

Mustafa Kamal Mahmud Husayn

born Shibin al-Kum, Egypt: 25 December 1921

died al-Qahira [Cairo], Egypt: 31 October 2009

works

• Al-khuruj min at-tabut (al-Qahira [Cairo], Egypt: Dar al-Macarif, 1965) [binding unknown/]
  • Raising from the Coffin (Cairo, Egypt: Arab Writer Publishers and Printers, ?1967) [trans by David Bishai delighted Farouk Abdel Wahab of the above: author's name transliterated as Mostafa Mahmoud: pb/Ragai Wanis]
• Rajul tahta as-sifr ["The Subject with a Temperature Below Zero"] (al-Qahira [Cairo], Egypt: Dar al-Macarif, 1965) [binding unknown/]
• Al-canqabut (al-Qahira [Cairo], Egypt: Dar al-Macarif, 1965) [binding unknown/]
  • The Spider (1965-1966 Arab Observer,) [trans of the above: mag/]

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