Mahmud Tahir Haqqi (1884-1964[1]) was an Egyptian writer and author of one of the earliest Egyptian novels.[2] He was a founding member of the “New School” of Arabic writing.[3]
↑ Allen, Roger (1992), "The beginnings of the Arabic novel", in Badawī, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá (ed.), Modern Arabic Literature, Volume 3, Cambridge University Press, p.190, ISBN0521331978
1 2 Brugman, J. (1984), An introduction to the history of modern Arabic literature in Egypt, BRILL, p.263, ISBN90-04-07172-5, Yahya Haqqi was born in...a Turco-Egyptian family...Yahya's uncle Mahmud Tahir Haqqi, the author of one of the early Egyptian novels,...
↑ Siddiq, Muhammad (2007), Arab Culture and the Novel: Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction, Routledge, p.27, ISBN978-1135980511
