Muhammad Hussein Haekal (August 20, 1888 – December 8 1956) was an Egyptian

Egyptians

Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

 writer, journalist, politician and Minister of Education in Egypt

Egypt

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Life

Heikal was born in Mansoura, Ad Daqahliyah in 1888. He obtained a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 in Law in 1909 and a JD

Juris Doctor

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 from the Sorbonne University in 1912. After returning to Egypt, he worked as a lawyer

Lawyer

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 for 10 years, then as a journalist

Journalist

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. He was elected as editor-in-chief of Al Siyasa newspaper, the organ of "The constitutional Tory party" for which he was also an advisor. In 1937, he was appointed as Minister of State for the Interior Ministry in the Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha

Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha

Muhammad Mahmud Pasha was Prime Minister of Egypt twice.Mahmud first became Prime Minister from June 27, 1928 to October 4, 1929, running under the Liberal Constitutional Party. When he left office, Sir Percy Lyham Loraine led Egypt as Governor General for two months until a new Prime Minister...

's second government. Then he was appointed as a Minister of Education where he introduced several reforms, including decentralization, by establishing educational zones and making programs and curricula nationally oriented. He was greatly influenced and inspired by the comprehensive reforms of Mohammad Abduh, Ahmad Lutfy El Sayed and Qasim Amin

Qasim Amin

Qasim Amin born on 1 December 1863 Alexandria died April 22, 1908 Cairo was an Egyptian jurist and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and Cairo University. Qasim Amin was considered by many as the Arab world’s “first feminist”...

. Haikal is the father of Fayza Haikal who teaches Egyptology

Egyptology

Egyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...

 at the American University in Cairo

American University in Cairo

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He died in 1956.

Works

His works include:

• Zeinab
  Zaynab (novel)
  Husayn Haykal's Zaynab is the first modern Egyptian novel published in 1913. The book depicts life in the Egyptian countryside and delves into the relationships between men and women.-Plot introduction:...
  
  , 1914; the first modern Egyptian novel.
• Biographies of Egyptian and Western Personalities, 1929.
• The Life of Muhammad, 1933; a biography of Muhammad
  Muhammad
  Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...
  
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• In the House of Revelation, 1939.
• Al Farouq Omar,1944/45.
• Memories on Egyptian politics, 1951-53.
• Thus Was I Created,1955.
• Faith, Knowledge and Philosophy, published in 1964.
• The Islamic Empire and sacred places, published in 1964 .
• Egyptian short stories, published in 1967.
• Othman Ibn Affan, published in 1968.
• Mehraj-ud-din beigh, Arabic master.

External links

• The Life of Muhammad, English translation.