The Destitute

Blackstone Verified independent store

→

English Transalation by Yusuf Talal Delorenzo THE AUTHOR Mustafa Sadiq al-Rafi’i was born in January of 1880 in Egypt to parents of Syrian descent. His father ,’Abd al-Razzaq al-Ra fi’i was a learned man and maintained a sizeable personal library that would play an important part in the development of the author as poet critic, and respected literary figure in early twentieth century Egypt. His family was devoted to scholarship in the classical Islamic sciences; he was blessed with several generations of gifted offspring. Among all of these, however, Mustafa Sadiq would alone to prominence in the literary world. Show more