Taha Hussein’s Biography, Fact, Career, Awards, Net Worth and Life Story
In 1950, he was appointed a Minister of Knowledge (Ministry of Education nowadays) in which capacity he led a call for free education and the right of everyone to be educated. Additionally, he was an advocate against the confinement of education to the rich people only. In that respect, he said, “Education is as water and air, the right of every human being”. Consequently, in his hands, education became free and Egyptians started getting free education. He also transformed many of the Quranic schools into primary schools and converted a number of high schools into colleges such as the Graduate Schools of Medicine and Agriculture. He is also credited with establishing a number of new universities.
Taha Hussein held the position of chief editor of a number of newspapers and wrote innumerable articles. He was also a member of several scientific academies in Egypt and around the world.
Works
The author of “more than sixty books (including six novels) and 1,300 articles”, his major works include:
- Complete Works of Taha Hussein 1–16 [1]
- The Memory of Abu Al-Ala’ al-Ma’arri 1915
- Selected Poetical Texts of the Greek Drama 1924
- Ibn Khaldun’s Philosophy 1925
- Dramas by a Group of the Most Famous French Writers 1924
- Pioneers of Thoughts 1925
- Wednesday Talk 1925
- Pre-Islamic Poetry 1926
- In the Summer 1933
- The Days, 3 Volumes, 1926–1967
- Hafez and Shawki 1933
- The Prophet’s Life “Ala Hamesh El Sira” 1933
- Curlew’s Prayers 1934
- From a Distance 1935
- Adeeb 1935
- The Literary Life in the Arabian Peninsula 1935
- Together with Abi El Alaa in his Prison 1935
- Poetry and Prose 1936
- Bewitched Palace 1937
- Together with El Motanabi 1937
- The Future of Culture in Egypt 1938
- Moments 1942
- The Voice of Paris 1943
- Sheherzad’s Dreams 1943
- Tree of Misery 1944
- Paradise of Thorn 1945
- Chapters on Literature and Criticism 1945
- The Voice of Abu El Alaa 1945
- Osman “The first Part of the Greater Sedition
- El Fitna Al Kubra (“The Great Upheaval”) 1947
- Spring Journey 1948
- The Stream Of Days 1948
- The Tortured of Modern Conscience 1949
- The Divine Promise “El Wa’d El Haq” 1950
- The Paradise of Animals 1950
- The Lost Love 1951
- From There 1952
- Varieties 1952
- In The Midst 1952
- Ali and His Sons (The 2nd Part of the Greater Sedition) 1953
- (Sharh Lozoum Mala Yalzm, Abu El Alaa) 1955
- (Anatagonism and Reform 1955
- The Sufferers: Stories and Polemics (Published in Arabic in 1955), Translated by Mona El-Zayyat (1993), Published by The American University in Cairo, ISBN 9774242998
- Criticism and Reform 1956
- Our Contemporary Literature 1958
- Mirror of Islam 1959
- Summer Nonsense 1959
- On the Western Drama 1959
- Talks 1959
- Al-Shaikhan (Abi Bakr and Omar Ibn El Khatab) 1960
- From Summer Nonsense to Winter Seriousness 1961
- Reflections 1965
- Beyond the River 1975
- Words 1976
- Tradition and Renovation 1978
- Books and Author 1980
- From the Other Shore 1980
Translations
- Jules Simon’s The Duty 1920–1921
- Athenians System (Nezam Al-Ethnien) 1921
- The Spirit of Pedagogy 1921
- Dramatic Tales 1924
- Andromaque (Racine) 1935
- From the Greek Dramatic Literature (Sophocle) 1939
- Voltaire’s Zadig or (The Fate) 1947
- André Gide: From Greek
- Legends’ Heroes
- Sophocle-Oedipe
