Muhammad 'Uthman Jalal
Muḥammad ʿUthmān Jalāl (1829 - 1898) was an Egyptian dramatist, translator and author. One of the most prolific adapters of French plays and literary texts by La Fontaine, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Molière, and Racine, Muhammad 'Uthman Jalal (known as Galal), was the son of a minor official of Turkish ancestry who had married an Egyptian woman. He rendered in Egyptian dialect several plays by Molière, including a version of "Tartuffe", Al-Shaykh Matlūf.