Abdel Rahman Badawi

Abdur Rahman Badawi (Arabic: عبد الرحمن بدوى) (February 17, 1917 – July 25, 2002) was an Egyptian existentialist professor of philosophy and poet, and is called the "foremost master of Arab existentialism."^[1] He authored more than 150 works, amongst them 75 which were encyclopaedic. He wrote easily in his native Arabic, English, Spanish, French and German, and read Greek, Latin and Persian.^[2]

References

^ Mona Mikhail(1992), Studies in the Short Fiction of Mahfouz and Idris, NYU Press, p. 28
^ Abdel Rahman Badawi: philosopher, scholar, thinker and poet.

External links

The Guardian's obituary for Badawi

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Name	Badawi, Abdur Rahman
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Date of birth	February 17, 1917
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Date of death	July 25, 2002
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