Muhammad Taymur (1892February 24, 1921) was an Egyptian playwright,

fiction writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles, genres and techniques to communicate ideas, to inspire feelings and emotions, or to entertain. Writers may develop different forms of writing such as novels, short stori ...

, poet, and literary critic. He wrote the first short story in

Arabic literature Arabic literature ( / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is ''Adab (Islam), Adab'', which comes from a meaning of etiquett ...

, ''Fi al-Qitar'' ("On the Train"), in the early 20th century. He was a member of

Al-Madrasa al-Ḥadītha ''Al-Madrasa al-Ḥadītha'' ( or 'The New School') was a Modernism, modernist movement in Arabic literature that began in 1917 in Sultanate of Egypt, Egypt. The movement is associated with the development of the short story in the earlier periods ...

literary movement. His father is writer and historian

Ahmed Taymour Ahmed Tawfik Taymour Pasha (1871–1930) was an Egyptian writer and historian. Taymour Pasha was born on 6 November 1871 in Cairo to a family of the Egyptian elite, his father Isma'il Taymur being of Kurdish origin and his mother of Turkish d ...

, his younger brother is writer

Mahmud Taymur Mahmud Taymur (16 June 1894–25 August 1973) was a fiction writer. He contributed to several publications. Biography He was born in Cairo on 16 June 1894. into a family famous for literature. His father, Ahmed Taymour (1871-1930) was a well-kn ...

, and his aunt is poet and social activist Aisha Taymur. He moved to Berlin to study medicine, and then Paris to study law, but returned to Egypt with the outbreak of

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in 1914. His works were published posthumously in four volumes by his brother.

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Egyptian male writers 1921 deaths 1892 births Writers from Cairo {{Egypt-writer-stub

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