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Also Known As Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn Shādhilī Sayyid Quṭb
Born October 9, 1906 • Asyūṭ • Egypt
Died August 29, 1966 (aged 59) • Cairo • Egypt
Political Affiliation Muslim Brotherhood
al-Suyūṭī
Egyptian author
al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
British scholar
Hassan al-Banna
Egyptian religious leader
al-Jāḥiẓ
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al-Aṣmaʿī
Arab scholar
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
Ibn al-ʿArabī
Muslim mystic
Alaa al-Aswany
Egyptian author
Nawal El Saadawi
Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, author and feminist
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz
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Ṭāhā Ḥusayn
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Ṣunʿ Allāh Ibrāhīm
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Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm
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Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin
Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi
poet
Yūsuf Idrīs
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Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm
Egyptian poet
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī
Syrian author
ʿAbbās Maḥmūd al-ʿAqqād
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Shawqī, Aḥmad
Aḥmad Shawqī
Egyptian poet