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  "en": "Taha Hussein — Encyclopaedia Britannica"
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  "ar": "مدخل موسوعة بريتانيكا عن طه حسين؛ يؤكد ميلاده في 14 نوفمبر 1889 بمغاغة ووفاته في 28 أكتوبر 1973 بالقاهرة، ومحاكمته بتهمة الردة دون إدانة، ووزارته للتعليم 1950–1952 وإلغاءه الرسوم المدرسية.",
  "en": "Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Taha Hussein; it confirms his birth on 14 November 1889 at Maghagha and death on 28 October 1973 in Cairo, his trial for apostasy without conviction, and his 1950–52 ministry of education, in which he abolished school fees."
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  "title": "Ṭāhā Ḥusayn",
  "author": [
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    "family": "Encyclopaedia Britannica editors",
    "given": ""
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     1998,
     7,
     20
    ]
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  "publisher": "Encyclopaedia Britannica (entry last updated 24 October 2026)",
  "URL": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taha-Husayn",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Reference entry read in full on 24 October 2026. Used for entity facts: birth 14 November 1889 at Maghagha and death 28 October 1973 in Cairo; blindness at two; al-Azhar from 1902, described as the leading Sunni centre of higher Islamic education (a description of the institution, not of Hussein's own school); the first doctorate of the University of Cairo in 1914; further study at the Sorbonne; the storm over Fi al-shi'r al-jahili (1926), in which he argued much reputedly pre-Islamic poetry was forged later — 'for this he was tried for apostasy, but he was not convicted'; The Future of Culture in Egypt (1938) and its Mediterranean thesis; minister of education 1950–52 in the last Wafd government before the monarchy's overthrow, extending state education and abolishing school fees; Al-Ayyam in three volumes (1929–67).",
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 "updated": "2026-10-25",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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