Talk:Naguib Mahfouz

message: I'm new to this (no account yet).  I noticed The Harafish seems to be missing from the list of works, but perhaps it is known under a different title.
The Harafish means 'The Have-nots' in English.  The full Arabic title is Malhamat al-Harafish - The Epic of the Have-nots.  The Doubleday translation rather unimaginatively called it 'The Harafish'; it appears to be still in print.
I'm using this page to answer Gren's question about why I altered the entries on Mahfouz and Gebelawi (I don't know how to answer a query through Wikipedia pages).  It is wrong to suggest that Sheikh Omar talked in 1959 of punishing Mahfouz; I know, because I was there, translating Children of Gebelawi in 1962 and there was certainly no threat; Omar is my age and was a student at the time.  It is wrong (and dangerous to Mahfouz and his associates) to claim that what the Sheikh said in 1989 was a 'fatwa'; he himself has always said that it was an opinion given to a journalist, not a formal legal utterance.  All this can be verified in Mary Anne Weaver's book A Portrait of Egypt, 2nd edition 2000 as well as a book called 'the stories of Nagiub' writtem by Karim Swelim and Ismail Bassam.
:Thanks for those comments and for setting the record straight; I've just added The Harafish (the only Mahfouz I've actually given up on halfway through) and a couple of other titles to the list. –Hajor 01:19, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Harafish 

message: The use of the word "fatwa' is misleading. Fatwa has a specific meaning, fatwas are generatated to condemn actions and not individuals (though the individuals that commit the actions...) - separate from the doctrine of takfeer. I'm adjusting the wording of the article to use accurate terminology. Angrynight 01:36, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the word "fatwa".. 

message: All the articles I read say that Naguib Mahfouz died today, Wednesday 30 August. This was the date added by Capitalistroadster, who first updated the article with news of the death. The date was changed to Tuesday 29 August by 213.164.6.19 without explanation. This was reverted by 213.152.66.197, and then reverted back by the original anon. Everyone seems to be acting in good faith. Of course, Cairo is currently three hours ahead of UTC, and we should date his death by the calendar date in Cairo. In England, I'm two hours behind Cairo time, and the papers here say he died on the 30th. Does anyone know at what time Naguib Mahfouz died? — Gareth Hughes 11:26, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 8:05 am Cairo time on 30 august 2006 --Tarawneh 21:41, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. The user who edited it to 29 August must have been an American! — Gareth Hughes 23:30, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of death 

message: I am working on the list of complete works and I guess some pages has to be created for them most of them has been made into movies and soap operas with some variations. Also a disabmiguation page may have to be created for some of the titles or some sort of that. The American University in Cairo  currently has the only right to publish his translated novels in English so it is better to stick to their translated titles like Children of Gabalwy for Awalad Haretna.
Elximo 01:23, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete Works 

message: The relevance of Jacques Chirac's (not to mention George Bush's) literary opinions is, at best, dubious.202.175.209.177 07:30, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, although I think you give Chirac and Bush too much credit by implying that these press statements represent their own thoughts.  I am removing them. Flauto Dolce 12:21, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment 

message: I removed the Egyptian atheists category. Though he was always accused of being an infidel by Muslim extremists, Mahfouz himself never declared himself as an atheist. In one interview he said in response to a question regarding his religious beliefs "When I was studying philosophy in college, I went through a time when I questioned God and religion. This was a crucial phase in my life, but I came out of it with solid faith"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.205.224.2 (talk) 10:08, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am removing atheist and former Muslim categories, until a source is provided.--Fjmustak (talk) 00:50, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Atheism

message: Shouldn't there be a section on him winning the Noble prize ? Thebutterfly (talk) 13:25, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Noble Prize Separate Section

message: The article says he published over 50, and he published 34.  One or the other, surely.KD Tries Again (talk) 15:13, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of novels 

message: the list of Mahfouz works on the English Wikipedia page is not accurate. Some of the titles are the name of films based on the novels. Some are short stories in collections and some are the names of short story collections. Some titles are missing.
A full list of all translations can be found at (pp 31-52)
http://www.aucpress.com/images/Mahfouz_brochure_2011__LowRes.pdf
But in the meantime here are some clarifications I have noted on the Naguib Mahfouz page:
Whisper of Madness is a short story;
3 Stories of Ancient Egypt is the collected title of three novels:
Mockery of the Fates Translated into English under the name Khufu's Wisdom (1st of 3 Stories of Ancient Egypt;
Rhadopis of Nubia (2nd of 3 Stories of Ancient Egypt;
The Struggle of Thebes aka War at Thebes (3rd of 3 Stories of Ancient Egypt).
God's World is a collection of short stories;
Zaabalawi is a short story;
Tharthara Fawq Al-Nīl is A Film based on Adrift on the Nile;
The Pub of the Black Cat is short story;
The Honeymoon is a Collection of short stories;
The Hunger is  a film based on The Harafish;
I think Fountain and Tomb is the English translation listed as Stories from Our Neighbourhood ;
What is listed as Dreams of the rehabilitation period is either two volumes or a combination of the two in one volume called Dreams and Dreams of Departure
Mahfouz Reader (talk) 14:57, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your attention to this, but the way to improve the list is to modify it, not to cut and paste a couple of paragraphs of unformatted, unencyclopedic, unintelligible gibberish into the article. Hopefully you'll make an effort. 71.139.148.115 (talk) 19:04, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  English Translations 

message: A stupid question maybe, but: did he write in Modern Standard Arabic or Egyptian Arabic? --Dorpater (talk) 19:22, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Language of his works 

message: The biography has a contradiction. At the end of "1 Early life and education" he does his BA, the tries MA, gives up and works for newspapers.  Then follows "2 Civil service" where he enters government service right after BA. Which?Kipala (talk) 21:14, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Conflicting bio

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