While al-Hakim's earlier plays were all composed in the literary language, he was to conduct a number of experiments with different levels of dramatic language | Influence and impact on Arabic literature [ ] Tawfiq al-Hakim is one of the major pioneer figures in modern literature |
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2- Intellectual Theatre: This dramatic style produced plays to be read not acted | Thus, he refused to call them plays and published them in separate books |
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26, This Day in History-July 23: The Death of Tawfiq al-Hakim, July 23, 1992 | |
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He left primary school in 1915 and his father put him in a public school in the Beheira province, where Tawfiq al-Hakim finished secondary school | In such a historical context, al-Hakim's play can be seen as a somewhat courageous statement of the need for even the mightiest to adhere to the laws of the land and specifically a plea to the ruling to eschew the use of violence and instead seek legitimacy through application of the law |
Tawfiq was born in Ramleh, Alexandria, to an Egyptian landowning father and an aristocratic Turkish mother | Early life [ ] Tawfiq Ismail al-Hakim was born in October 9, 1898, in , Egypt, to an father and mother |
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These plays were more artistic because they were based on Al Hakim's personal opinion in criticizing social life | Within a year, al-Hakim produced another major and highly revered work, Shahrazad Scheherazade, 1934 |