Ahmad al-Sibai

Ahmad al-Sibai was born in Mecca in 1905, the year 1323 of the Hijra. After attending the Quranic school, then a school in the city, he wrote reading textbooks and joined the newspaper Sawt al-Hijaz, which he came to direct. He then founded the review Quraish and was the first to put forward the project of an Islamic theatre in Mecca. A historian of his city, author of a History of Mecca and of childhood memories translated into English under the title My Days in Mecca, he received the State Appreciation Prize and died in Mecca in 1984.

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• NovelفكرةAhmad al-Sibai · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature