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The Cairo Trilogy

الثلاثية

Mahfouz's trilogy — Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street — three generations of a Muslim Cairene family between the wars.

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The Colonial Era · The Modern Era

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موجز

ثلاثية نجيب محفوظ (بين القصرين وقصر الشوق والسكرية، 1956–1957م) التي تسرد ثلاثة أجيال من أسرة مصرية في حي الحسين بالقاهرة، من ثورة 1919م إلى أربعينيات القرن. 1

الأثر

كانت حجر الأساس في نيل محفوظ جائزة نوبل 1988م؛ صارت بيتًا أول للقارئ العربي يعرف فيه القاهرة الحديثة بيوتًا وعائلات ونقاشات دينية وسياسية. 1

People and things also explored

al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Arab naming of children after plants· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina· Salim ibn Umayr's mission to kill Abu Afak· Umayr ibn Adi al-Khatmi's mission to kill Asma' bint Marwan· The killing of Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf

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al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant

Al-Hamdani's register of the peninsula's tongues records that the highland Himyar and Ja'da keep 'something of tanahmir' — Himyaritic speech — eliding consonants: 'bi-bn Ma'am' for 'bi-bn al-'amm', 'simmi'' for 'isma''. He counts Kinda and Hamdan the most eloquent of the south, says Mahra's speech resembles the 'ajam's, and names Nahj, Abyan and Dathina the purest — the earliest detailed witness to Old Himyaritic surviving on fourth-century tongues.