Mohammed Hussein Haikal's Zainab

the first Egyptian novel

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Mohammed Hussein Haikal's Zainab

the first Egyptian novel

  • 18 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

The story of an Egyptian farm worker as she tries to come to terms with the difficult circumstances of an arranged marriage which she does not want. This first authentic Arabic novel portrays and explores the customs and traditions of rural Egyptian at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Publish Date
Publisher
Darf Publishers
Language
English
Pages
215

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Zaynab
Zaynab
2006, Dār al-Ḥarf al-ʻArabī
in Arabic - al-Ṭabʻah 1
Cover of: Zainab
Zainab
December 1989, Hyperion Books
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Mohammed Hussein Haikal's Zainab
Mohammed Hussein Haikal's Zainab: the first Egyptian novel
1989, Darf Publishers
in English
Cover of: Zaynab
Zaynab: manāẓir wa-akhlāq rīfīyah
1975, Dār al-Maʻārif
in Arabic
Cover of: Zaynab
Zaynab
1963, Maktabat al-Nahḍat al-Miṣrīyah
in Egyptian

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First Sentence

"It was the time when the world comes back to life, when the total silence which reigns over the peasant villages during the night is broken by the call of the muezzin and the crow of the cockerel."

Edition Notes

Arabic ed. first published in 1913.

Published in
London
Other Titles
Zainab.

The Physical Object

Pagination
iv, 215 p. ;
Number of pages
215

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21127725M
ISBN 10
1850772150
Library Thing
7503618
Goodreads
806785

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Oregon Libraries MARC record

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August 18, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
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