• Ориенталистика
• 2023 год
• Vol 6, № 5

Yahya Haqqi is one of the most popular novelists in Egypt in the mid–twentieth century. He is known not only as an author of works of art. His books on the history of Egyptian literature, critical works, books of commemorations provide invaluable material about the life and activities of the literary circles of Egypt in the last century. He is the founder of the genre of “lauhat” (literary sketches) in Egyptian literature. The writer's artistic creativity reflects the development of Arabic short stories for more than forty years. His most famous works are “The Lamp of Umm Hashim”, “Awakening”, “The Postman”, “God bless you”. He is considered, first of all, the master of the novella, at the origins of which he stood in Egyptian literature. Yahya Haqqi plays a huge role in the creation of modern literary Arabic. He consciously set himself this task, scrupulously working on each phrase. He is the author of one of the most significant works of Arabic literature of the last century, his “Lamp of Umm Hashim” has become the most popular not only in Egypt, but throughout the Arab world.

• Egyptian literature
• novel genre
• literary language
• sketches
• literary criticism
• artistic means
• religious basis
• morality

1. Ali- Zadeh E. A. Egyptian Novella. Moscow: Nauka, 1974 (in Russian).
2. Kirpichenko V. N., Safronov V. V. The History of Egyptian Literature. Vol. 1. In 2 vols. Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura RAN, 2003 (in Russian).
3. Uspenskaya N. A. The Work of Yahya Haqqi. On the Problem of the Formation of a Realistic Direction in Egyptian Prose. Ph. D. Thesis (Philology). Moscow, 1981 (in Russian).
4. Uspenskaya N. A. The Formation of a Realistic Trend in Egyptian Prose of the First Half of the 20th Century. Moscow: MGIMO, 2017 (in Russian).
5. Haqqi Yahya. Qandeel Umm Hashim. Al- Qahira: Matabiu al-haiaty al-misriyah al-amma li-l-kuttab, 1945(1) [Haqqi Yahya. The Lamp of Umm Hashim. Cairo: Matabiu al-haiaty al-misriyah al-amma li-l-kuttab, 1945(1) (in Arabic)].
6. Haqqi Yahya. Dimaa wa tyn. Al- Qahira: Al- Kitab al-zahabiy, 1945(2) [Haqqi Yahya Earth and Blood. Cairo: al- Kitab al-zahabiy, 1945(2) (in Arabic)].
7. Haqqi Yahya. Khaleeha ala al-lahi. Al- Qahira: Al- Kitab al-zahabiy, 1956 [Haqqi Yahya. God Bless You. Cairo: al- Kitab al-zahabiy, 1956 (in Arabic)].
8. Haqqi Yahya. Fajr al-qissa al-misriyah. Al- Qahira: Matabiu al-haiaty al-misriyah al-amma li-l-kuttab, 1975 [Haqqi Yahya. The Dawn of the Egyptian Novel. Cairo: Matabiu al-haiaty al-misriyah al-amma li-l-kuttab, 1975 (in Arabic)].
9. Haqqi Yahya. Al- Amal al-kamilah. Al- Qahira: Matabiu al-haiaty al-misriyah al-amma li-l-kuttab, 1975 [Haqqi Yahya. Autobiography. Collected Works. Cairo, Matabiu al-haiaty al-misriyah al-amma li-l-kuttab, 1975 (in Arabic)].
10. Khidr Abbas. Al-qissa al-qasira fi Misr munzu nishateeha hatta 1930. Al- Qahira, 1966 [Khidr Abbas. A Short Story in Egypt from Its Origin to 1930. Cairo, 1966 (in Arabic)].