Abdul rahman munif biography of williams

Abdul Rahman Munif;

An Arabian Master of Literature

(published in IJAR issn 2278 - 7275 vol.4 issue 2 june 2014)

Abdul Majeed.T

Assistant professor,

Research Department of Arabic, farook college.

majeedjnu@gmail.com

Dr. Abdul Majeed T.A.

Registrar, University of Calcut.

Abstract

Abdul Rahman Munif, (1933 - 2004) was one of the greatest and most controversial Arab novelists, economist, and remarkable figure of world literature. He was born in Jordan in 1933, to a Saudi father and died of a heart attack January 24, Syria. Munif lived in Egypt, Yugoslavia, Iraq, France, and in Syria. In that sense, he could be described an Arab Cosmopolitan. He used modernist narrative techniques resembling magical realism, and promoted a new genre of fiction that reflected the social, political and economic realities of modern Arab society. He devoted most of his works to defending the freedom and dignity of the Arab individual, regardless of his/her geographic location. He d