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علاء الدين حب الله الديب اسم الشهرة : علاء الديب. تاريخ ومحل الميلاد: عام 1939 ، مصر القديمة ، القاهرة. المؤهلات: ليسانس كلية الحقوق ، جامعة القاهرة ، عام 1960 . الإنتاج الأدبى : أولا : مجموعة قصص قصيرة :…
شاعر مصري ولد بمحافظة المنوفية تخرج في كلية الاداب ـ قسم الفلسفة. حصل على جائزة الدولة التشجعية في الشعر عام 1989 وحصل على التقديرية 2006 وصدرت أعماله الكاملة عن دار الشروق عام2000 يعتبر مطر من أبرز شع…
مدرس جامعي للتاريخ الحديث والمعاصر؛ كاتب سياسي وعضو مؤسس بهيئة تحرير «البوصلة: صوت ديمقراطي جذري» 2005- 2011؛ مترجم. مهتم بالتاريخ والفكر السياسي والإيديولوجيا. تشمل كتبه: «سيد قطب والأصولية الإسلامية…
Sonallah Ibrahim (Arabic: صنع الله إبراهيم) was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. Ibrahim was one of the "sixties Generation" who was known for his leftist and nationalist views which are e…
دكتور محمد ضياء الدين الريس (1912 – 1977)، من أبرز أساتذة التاريخ الاسلامى في مصر في عهده، ولد 17 يناير 1912 بمركز المطرية بمحافظة الدقهلية بمصر، حفظ القرآن الكريم كاملا، حصل على دبلوم دار العلوم العل…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
أكاديمي ومؤرخ مصريٌّ. درس في دار العلوم وتخرَّج فيها، وحصل منها على درجة الدكتوراه سنة 2014م. له عنايةٌ بتاريخ الأفكار السياسية والمذاهب الدينية في التاريخ الإسلامي الوسيط. من أعماله المنشورة: "السُّ…
Ibn Hazm (Arabic: ابن حزم) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain. Described as one of the s…
