Taha Hussein

Taha Hussein was born in November 1889 in the province of Minya, in Maghagha according to Britannica, the seventh of thirteen children. Ophthalmia left him blind at the age of two. After Quranic school, he entered al-Azhar in 1902, whose teachers he challenged, then in 1914 obtained the first doctorate of the Egyptian university before continuing his studies in France. His 1926 essay on pre-Islamic poetry, which cast doubt on its authenticity, earned him the hostility of the religious establishment. Minister of Public Instruction from 1950 to 1952, he died in Cairo in 1973.

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