My life
Subtitle: the autobiography of an Egyptian scholar, writer and cultural leader
By: by Aḥmad Amīn ; translated from the Arabic with an introduction by Issa J. Boullata.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng; ara
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Amīn, Aḥmad, 1886-1954.; Egypt -- Biography.
Description: Ahmad Amin (1886-1954) was one of that remarkable cohort of Egyptian intellectuals all born a few years either side of 1890, a group whose prolific literary output largely defined and expressed the dominant liberal trend in Egyptian intellectual and cultural life in the period of the parliamentary monarchy from the 1920s through the 1940s. The autobiographical statements of two members of this group, Salamah Musa and Taha Husayn, have previously been made available in English translations. Now the reader unfamiliar with Arabic has an English version of Amin's autobiography to complement those of Musa and Husayn and to illuminate the cultural trends of a most important period of modern Egyptian and Arab history. -- from http://www.jstor.org (Dec. 10, 2013).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of Ḥayātī.