Abdallah Guennoun

Moroccan literature

List of writers Moroccan literature Moroccan Arabic Berber

Moroccan authors

Novelists Playwrights – Poets Essayists – Historians Travel writers – Sufi writers Moorish writers

Forms

Novel – Poetry – Plays

Criticism & Awards

Literary theory – Critics Literary Prizes

See also

El Majdoub – Awzal Choukri – Ben Jelloun Zafzaf – El Maleh Chraîbi – Mernissi Leo Africanus – Khaïr-Eddine

Morocco Portal

Literature Portal

Abdallah Guennoun (Born in 1908 in Fes - died 9 July 1989 in Tangier) was a famous, and influential Moroccan essayist. In 1927 and 1928, he wrote a three-volume book titled An Nubûgh Al Maghribi ("The genius of Morocco"), where he assesses the excellence of Moroccan literature and philosophy.

Guennoun taught at the universities of Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, and Amman.

On Guennoun

• CHAYBI, Ahmed. Al-Dirâsa al `adabiyya fî al-Magrib: Al-ustâdh `Abd`allâh Kanűn numudhadj,

Tánger: Madrasa al-Malik Fahd al-Uliyâ li-l-Tardjuma, 1991.

• HABABI, Fatima al-Djamiya al. Abd allâh Kanűn, Mohammedia: Mat:ba`a Fadhâla, 1991.

Abstract: Abdallah Guennun. Estudio biográfico y literario.

• HABABI, Fatima al-Djamiya al. Abd allâh Kanűn, Casablanca: Mu`asasas Űnâ, 1997.

References

• Memoirs of important Men of Morocco: Ibn Battuta, Rabat:Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, 1996
• Dhikrayat Mashahir Rijal al-Maghrib: Ahmad Zarruq, 1954
• Mohammed Tozy, Zakya Daoud, Abdallah Guennoun ou le dernier des Lettrés. LAMALIF (188), 1987:05, 13-16
• Rom Landau, Portrait of Tangier, ed. Hale, 1952, chapter 30: "Guennoun"

External links

• Afrique info (in French) [2] (retrieved Feb. 13, 2009)
• Tangier.free.fr (in French) [3] (retrieved Feb. 13, 2009)