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Taha Hussein
thereafter was admitted to El Azhar University, where he
studied Religion and Arabic literature. From an early age, he
was reluctant to take the traditional education to his heart.
Hussein was the seventh of thirteen children, born into a lower-
middle-class family. He became blind at the age of three, the
result of faulty treatment by an unskilled practitioner, a
condition which caused him a great deal of anguish throughout
his entire life.
Academic career
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Taha Hussein
autobiography, El-Ayyam, The Days) which was published in
English as An Egyptian Childhood (1932) and The Stream of
Days (1943). However, it was his book of literary criticism On
Pre-Islamic Poetry of 1926 that bought him some fame in the
Arab world. In this book, he expressed doubt about the
authenticity of much early Arabic poetry, claiming it to have
been falsified during ancient times due to tribal pride and
rivalry between tribes. He also hinted indirectly that the Qur'an
should not be taken as an objective source of history.
Consequently, the book aroused the intense anger and hostility
of the religious scholars at El Azhar and many other
traditionalists, and he was accused of having insulted Islam.
However, the public prosecutor stated that what Taha Hussein
had said was the opinion of an academic researcher and no
legal action was taken against him, although he lost his post at
Cairo University in 1931. His book was banned but was re-
published the next year with slight modifications under the title
On Pre-Islamic Literature (1927).
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Taha Hussein
In 1950, Hussein was appointed Minister of Education, and was
able to put into action his motto: "Education is like the air we
breathe and the water we drink." Mr. Farid Shehata was his
personal secretary and his eyes and ears during this
period.Without Taha Hussein and his passion to promote
education, millions of Egyptians would never have become
literate.
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