Sector : Cultural Figures , Writers

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• Country of residence: Palestine

• Gender: Male

• Born in: 1904

• Age: 119

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Ishaq Musa Al-Husseini (1904 - December 17, 1990) was a Palestinian writer , translator, teacher and academic from Jerusalem . He served as a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo , the Iraqi Scientific Academy and the Islamic Research Academy affiliated with Al-Azhar. He is best known for his novel Memoirs of a Chicken.

His biography

He was born in Jerusalem to the Al-Husseini family in 1904 and studied at the Rashidiya School, moving from there to the Salihi College , the Frere School, and then to the English College , from which he graduated with a high school diploma [2] . In 1923 , he moved to Cairo , where he joined the American University in Cairo and graduated from it in 1925 with a diploma in journalism. He returned to Jerusalem and worked as a teacher in the Rashidiya School for two years, but he soon returned to Cairo and joined the Faculty of Arts at the American University and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1929 . During his stay in Cairo, he got to know a number of intellectual figures such as Taha Hussein and Mansour Fahmy Ali Abdel Razek admired the Liberal Constitutional Party.

After graduating, he joined the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of London and returned to Jerusalem in 1934 after obtaining a diploma in Comparative Semitic Languages and a doctorate for a thesis he wrote on Ibn Qutaybah under the supervision of the orientalist Hamilnon Gebb . He initially taught briefly at the Rashidiya School, then moved to the Arabic College, where he worked for twelve years until he was appointed in 1946 as Supreme Inspector of the Arabic Language, and he remained in this position until 1948 .

After the Nakba, he left for Beirut and worked as a professor at the American University of Beirut until 1955, when he settled in Cairo and worked as a professor at the American University in Cairo, in addition to teaching at the Institute for Arab Research and Studies of the League of Arab States.

In 1961 , he was chosen as a member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo and the Iraqi Scientific Academy in Baghdad. In 1963 , he became a member of the Islamic Research Academy of Al-Azhar . He lived in Cairo until 1973 when he decided to return to Jerusalem and lived there until his death in late 1990 .

His writings

He has published about twenty-three books, between authorship, translation and investigation, on various topics. He has some books on teaching the Arabic language and books on Orientalism, Islam, Arab nationalism and Jerusalem, in addition to his novel Memoirs of a Chicken [3] and a pioneering study on the Muslim Brotherhood movement entitled “The Muslim Brotherhood is the Greatest Movement . ” Modern Islam” [4] .
Chicken diary
Muslim brothers
List of his most important works [5]

• Opinion on Teaching the Arabic Language, Jerusalem 1937.
• Oriental Scholars in England, Jerusalem 1940.
• Memoirs of a Chicken (novel), Dar Al-Maaref, Cairo 1943, 2nd edition, Dar Al-Maaref, Cairo, D. T.
• Al-Sahl Performances (two parts), in collaboration with Fayez Al-Ghoul, Jerusalem 1945.
• The Return of the Ship, Palestine Scientific Library, Jerusalem 1945.
• The Art of Singing Arabic Poetry (from French), in collaboration with Estephan Salem , Franciscan Press, Jerusalem, 1945.
• Methods of teaching the Arabic language - Jerusalem 1947.
• Are Writers Human?, Dar Al-Ilm Lil-Millain, Beirut, 1950.
• Ibn Qutaybah (PhD thesis in English), Jerusalem, 1950. Translated into Arabic.
• Contemporary literary criticism in the first quarter of the twentieth century - Beirut 1950.
• The Muslim Brotherhood, the largest modern Islamic movement - Beirut 1952.
• The Crisis of Arab Thought - Beirut 1954.
• Introduction to Contemporary Arabic Literature, Institute of Arab Studies - Cairo 1963.
• Literature and Arab Nationalism - Cairo 1967.
• The Arabism of Jerusalem in Islam - Cairo - 1967.
• The Arabism of Jerusalem, Beirut, 1969.
• Introduction to the Study of Contemporary Arabic Literature - Cairo 1964.
• Research into the past and present of Muslims - Cairo 1966.
• Contemporary Arab Issues - Beirut 1978, Faharis Al-Ans Al-Jalil - Jerusalem 1987.
• Arabic writer Muhammad Isaf al-Nashashibi , Dar Al-Tifl Al-Arabi, Jerusalem 1987.
• Khalil Sakakini , the modern writer, Islamic Research Center, Jerusalem 1989.
• Wardan Al-Wafi (joint), for children, Dar Al-Andalus, Jerusalem, ?194.
• Ahmed Al-Mudalal, A Tale for Children, Al-Andalus Library, Jerusalem.

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