Abbas el-Akkad

Abbas el Akkad statue in Aswan

Abbas Mahmud el-Akkad ( Arabic عباس محمود العقاد 'Abbās Maḥmūd al-'Aqqād ; * June 28, 1889 in Aswan ; † March 12, 1964 in Cairo ) was a largely self-taught Egyptian writer , historian , poet , philosopher and journalist .

Life

Abbas Mahmud el-Akkad was born in Aswan in Upper Egypt in 1889 as the son of an archivist. At the age of six he attended an Islamic preschool, where he was taught the Koran and Arabic, and then from 1899 a primary school. Due to the poor economic situation of his family or other factors, he finished school after four years. He worked in a silk factory in his early teens, but became obsessed with reading and learning about various fields. He later worked as an employee in Quena in Upper Egypt as well as in other professions. As a result of his great intelligence and his acquired knowledge, he began to write for newspapers. His first professional work was reportedly as a journalist. In 1907 he was an editor at Al Doustour (The Constitution) and al-Bayan (The Clarification). He also wrote essays for Oukaz magazine in 1912. El-Akkad learned to write largely on his own.

One of the earliest subjects of his written work was freedom of thought and expression, which was suppressed in Egypt under constant threat from political and religious forces in the early twentieth century. In 1915 he published his first Dīwāne under the title "Bits and Pieces" and "Shazarat" and the following year "Yaqazat al-Sabah" (The Morning of Awakening), a political commentary in poetic form and a connection between the living, which describes the problem of good versus evil. In the 1920s he wrote a book entitled "A Daily Summary" which contained an autobiographical account of his experiences. He later wrote more than 100 books on philosophy, religion and poetry. Together with Ibrahim Al-Mazny and Abdel Rahman Schokry, he founded a school of poets which he called al-Diwan.

In 1964 el-Akkad died in Cairo, his body was transferred to his hometown Aswan and buried. A street in Cairo was named after him.

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• al-Abkariat
• Allah
• Sarah (dedicated to a romance with a Christian Lebanese woman)
• The genius of Mohammad
• The genius of Jesus
• The genius of the righteous
• The genius of Omar
• The genius of Othman
• The genius of Al-Emam Aly
• The genius of Khaled
• The truths of Islam and the falsehood of its competitors
• Thinking is an Islamic duty
• Islam in the twentieth century
• The opium of the peoples
• The beginnings of the Mohammedan mission
• No for communism and colonialism
• Zionism and the question of Palestine

Web links

• Answer.com. Retrieved November 29, 2011 . 
• Arabphilosophers.com. Retrieved November 29, 2011 . 
• Abbas el-Akkad street in Cairo. Retrieved November 29, 2011 .