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Studies in Contemporary Arabic Literature
Manfalutt and the “New Style”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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In the preceding survey of Arabic literature during the nineteenth century, special emphasis was deliberately laid on two aspects of the subject, the struggle between the old and the new conceptions and ideals, and the gradual emergence of a. simplified Arabic prose style. If it is asked why a point of view apparently so narrow and exclusive should have been adopted, to the prejudice of a more detailed investigation of the personal and literary characteristics of the individual writers, the answer is twofold.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1929 , pp. 311 - 322
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page 311 note 1 Bulletin, Vol. 4, 745–60.Google Scholar See also the additional notes at the end of this article.
page 312 note 1 See on this subject an excellent analysis of Egyptian educational methods by Professor Amin, Ahmad in Mijattah al-Majma´ al-'llmi, Damascus, 7 (1927), 481 ft.Google Scholar
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page 314 note 1 This statement refers of course to the general body of literates, not to scholars such as Ahmad Pāshā Zaki and Ahmad Pāshā Taymür.
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page 315 note 1 It is intended to make the Arabic novel the subject of a later study in this series.
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page 316 note 2 4 edition, 3 vols., Cairo, 1923Google Scholar. The most judicial of contemporary reviews is that of al-Qasimi, Salah ad-Din in al-Muqtabas, 5 (1910), 325–34, 371–82.Google Scholar An interesting study from a more recent point of view has been written by al-'Aqqād, 
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page 317 note 3 i, 204–15. Cf. also his eulogy of 'Omar Khayyām, ii, 235–41.
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page 318 note 4 ii, 17–18.
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page 320 note 1 iii, 216–17, 237, and passim.
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page 321 note 5 A brief critical examination of Manfalutl's qualities as a writer of short stories is contained in the Introduction to 
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