← Taha HusseinThe Future of Culture in Egyptby Taha HusseinEssay on Western modernization, secularism, and Egyptian cultural developmentFind on Amazon↗About the authorTaha HusseinEgyptian writer and intellectual, the 'Dean of Arabic Literature,' whose autobiography The Days is a classic of Arabic prose. Blind from childhood, he became Egypt's most influential modernizing voice in literature and education.More by Taha HusseinThe DaysAutobiographical novel depicting a blind Egyptian writer's childhood struggles and education→The Tree of Misery→On Pre-Islamic PoetryCritical essay challenging traditional Arab literary scholarship on pre-Islamic poetry→The Promise→A Man of Letters→The Sufferers→
