Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad
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Abbas Mahmud al-Aqqad [‘Abbās Maḥmūd al-‘Aqqād] (Template:Lang-ar) (June 28, 1889–March 12, 1964) was an Egyptian writer.
Biography
Al-Aqqad was born in Aswan, a city in Lower Egypt, in 1889. He graduated only out of elementary school; he did not finish school until the end. Unlike his schoolmates, he spent all his weekly allowance on books rather than candy and food. He read about religion, geography, history and many other subjects. He was known for his excellent English.
He wrote more than 100 books about philosophy, religion, and poetry. He founded a poetry school with Ibrahim Al-Mazny and Abdel Rahman Shokry called Al-Diwan. He died in 1964 in Cairo. His most famous works were al-'Abkariat, Allah, and Sarah. Some of his books were translated into English. Al-Aqqad was known for his use of flowery and complicated prose.
Al-Aqqad experienced had two major romantic relationships in his life. The first was with a Christian Lebanese lady, whom he called "Sarah" in his novel of the same name. The second was with the famous Egyptian actress Madiha Yusri. This relationship was ended by al-Aqqad himself, because of Yusri's career as an actress. Al-Aqqad wrote a poetry work about this relationship called Cyclones of a Sunset (A-Asiru Maghrib in Arabic).
Al Aqqad has died in the early morning of March,13,1964. His corpse was transported by the train to his hometown Aswan in the south of Upper Egypt, where it was buried the same day.
In the early 1980s, an Egyptian television series was produced about the life of al-Aqqad, which was titled The Giant (Al Imlaq in Arabic). It starred the late Egyptian actor Mahmud Mursi.
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