Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti
Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti (born December 30, 1876 in Manfalut , † July 25, 1924 in Cairo ) ( Arabic مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي) - other spellings of names: Mostafa Lotfi El-Manfalouti , Mustafa Lutfi al Manfaluti - was an important Egyptian poet and the author of numerous novels and short stories, influenced by French Romanticism, as well as essays against social injustice.
Life
Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti was born on December 30, 1876 in Manfalut, Upper Egypt, to an Arab father and a Turkish mother. His family derived their descent from Hussein ben Ali , the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed . Following the family tradition, Mustafa Lutfi received a strictly religious education in the Koran school of the Egyptian sheikh Jala Ad-din al-Assiouti and was later respected as a sheikh himself. During his studies at the Islamic scientific Al-Azhar University (جامعة الأزهر / ǧāmiʿat al-Azhar) in Cairo, he wrote critical poems against the ruling authorities in Egypt, i.e. against the Khedive (Turkish viceroy) Abbas II (1874– 1944) as well as against the British occupying power , which was formally from 1882 to 1922, but in fact still as a protectorate until the 1950s , which earned him a six month break in prison. From 1913 to 1921 he was secretary of the Legislative Assembly of Egypt.
With his literary works, Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti is one of the great Egyptian poets of the twentieth century and is also one of the most important Arabic translators, especially of French literature of his time. Mention should be made, for example, of the works rendered in a highly poetic style such as the novel Sous les Tilleuls by Alphonse Karr (under the title Magdulin , 1912) and the piece Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (adapted as a novel under the title al-Shä'ir , 1921). Although he hardly mastered the French language himself and had to use the help of other linguists (including the authors Muhammad Fu'ad Kamal, Hasan al-Sharif, Muhammad 'abdel-Salam al-Jindi and' Othman Jalal), it is undoubtedly a major merit of the writer Mustafa Lutfi, to have contributed significantly to the popularization and acceptance of the literary genre of the novel in the Arab world. His sentimental portrayal of the unhappy fate of women was primarily intended to serve as a warning of the pernicious consequences such as gambling and drinking, free love and suicide, which al-Manfaluti's compatriots seemed to threaten to adopt Western traditions. His literary works had a fruitful effect on the artistic development of, for example, the singer Umm Kulthum (1904 [?] - 1975) and the poet Salah Abd as-Sabur (1931–1981).
Works
- Mukhtarate al-Manfaluti ( 1912 Arabic مختارات المنفلوطي/ Selected works by al-Manfaluti ).
- An-Nadharate Arabic النظرات/ 3 volumes of collected essays ( 1910 , 1912 and 1921 ).
- As-Shaîr Arabic الشاعر(= The Poet ), based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand .
- Majdouline Arabic ماجدولين, Novel based on Alphonse Karr.
- Fi Sabili at-Taj Arabic في سبيل التاجNovel based on a play by François Coppée .
literature
- Matti Moosa , The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction , 1997, ISBN 9780894106842 , p. 110 ff.
- Samah Selim, The Novel and the Rural Imaginary in Egypt, 1880-1985 , 2004, ISBN 9780203611449 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti in the catalog of the German National Library
- Encyclopaedia Britannica on the writer "Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī"
- Information service of the State of Egypt: "Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti" ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfaluti, Mustafa Lutfi al-, 1876-1924, Egyptian writer ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti
- ↑ Mustafa Lutfi al-Manfaluti (1876-1924) as translator
- ↑ Cf. Stefanie Gsell, Umm Kulthum: Personality and Fascination of the Egyptian Singer ; 1998; ISBN 9783860931844 ; P. 167f.
- ↑ See Nagi Naguib: Afterword ; in: Salah Abd as-Sabur: The Death of the Mystic / Ma`sat al-Hallağ (Arabic 1965); 1981; ISBN 3-922825-05-2 .
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| SURNAME | Manfaluti, Mustafa Lutfi al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Manfaluti, Mustafa Lutfi el-; Manfalouti, Mostafa Lotfi el; Muṣṭafā Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī; Manfalūṭī, Muṣṭafā L. al-; Manfalūṭī, Muṣṭafā Lutfi al-; Manfalūṭī, Muṣṭafā Luṭfī Ibn-Muḥammad Luṭf̣ī Ibn-Muḥammad Ḥasan Luṭf̣ī al-; Manfalūṭī, Muṣṭafā Luṭfī Ibn Muḥammad Luṭf̣ī Ibn Muḥammad Ḥasan Luṭf̣ī al-; Muṣṭafā Luṭfī Ibn-Muḥammad Luṭf̣ī Ibn-Muḥammad Ḥasan Luṭf̣ī al-Manfalūṭī; Muṣṭafā Luṭfī Ibn Muḥammad Luṭf̣ī Ibn Muḥammad Ḥasan Luṭf̣ī al-Manfalūṭī |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manfalut |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1924 |
| Place of death | Cairo |