Tawfiq al hakim biography of rory

Tawfīq el-Hakīm
Undated photograph of Tawfiq al-Hakim
Born	October 9 1898(1898-10-09) Alexandria, Khedivate of Egypt
Died	July 26 1987 (aged 88) Cairo, Egypt
Occupation	Novelist, Playwright
Nationality	Egyptian
Notable work(s)	The People of the Cave

Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Egyptian Arabic: توفيق الحكيم, ALA-LC:Tawfīq el-Ḥakīm; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary.

He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama, especially in the adaptation of the literary language, which had previously made literature inaccessible to a large portion of the public. Al-Hakim also weighed in on some of the social and political issues of his day through his dramas.

Early life

Tawfiq Ismail al-Hakim was born on October 9, 1898, in Ramleh city in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Egyptian father and a Turkish mother.^[1] His father, a wealthy and illustrious Egyptian civil officer, worked as a judge i