Ali Mahmoud Taha
‘Ali Maḥmūd Ṭāhā (&lrm) (1901–1949) was an Egyptian neo-romantic poet and member of the Cairo "Apollo Society". He has been called several nicknames, such as: The Engineer and The Lost Sailor. The Egyptian literary scholar, 'Abd al-Majid 'Abidin, published an Arabic study discussing 'Ali Mahmud Taha "al-Munhandis" (the Engineer Ali Mahmud Taha) and Iliya Abu Madi in 1967, describing them both as reformist poets (sha'irayn mujaddidayn).
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Ali Mahmoud Taha
Ahmed Al.Badawy from Cairo, Egypt · Nile River Palms / El.Mansoura / Egypt - 14 05 2010 · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Born
- 1901 · Mansoura.
- Died
- 1949 · Cairo.
- Nationality
- Egypt · Ottoman Empire
- Occupation
- poet
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- Arabic
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‘Ali Maḥmūd Ṭāhā (&lrm) (1901–1949) was an Egyptian neo-romantic poet and member of the Cairo "Apollo Society". He has been called several nicknames, such as: The Engineer and The Lost Sailor. The Egyptian literary scholar, 'Abd al-Majid 'Abidin, published an Arabic study discussing 'Ali Mahmud Taha "al-Munhandis" (the Engineer Ali Mahmud Taha) and Iliya Abu Madi in 1967, describing them both as reformist poets (sha'irayn mujaddidayn).
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Nevertheless, Taha was not as immersed in romanticism as Ibrahim Nagi and Mohammad al-Hamshari. Furthermore, Taha's poets were politically-colored, but even provocative and patriotic, despite his death, which was before the 23rd-of-July Revolution. He was among the contributors of Al Siyasa, newspaper of the Liberal Constitutional Party.
Taha was born to a family of the middle-class in Mansoura, in Delta, Egypt.
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• East and West • Spirits and Ghosts • Flower and Wine • Passion Returned • Nights of the Lost Sailor • The Lost Sailor • Birth of a Poet • Palestine
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- 1.Ali Taha at Egyptian State Information Service
- 2.'Abidin, 'Abd al-Majid. Bayna sha'irayn mujaddidayn: Iliya Abu Madi wa-Ali Mahmud Taha al-Muhandis. Dar al-Thaqafah. 1967.
- 3.Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. Historical Dictionary of Egypt. Scarecrow Press. 388. 2013. 978-0-8108-8025-2.
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