At a glance
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In time
Overview
Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street, 1956–1957), which narrates three generations of an Egyptian family in the Husayn quarter of Cairo, from the 1919 revolution to the 1940s. 1
Legacy
The foundation of Mahfouz's Nobel Prize in 1988; for the Arab reader it became the first home in which modern Cairo is known as houses, families and religious and political debates. 1
People and things also explored
al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Arab naming of children after plants· The wise sayings attributed to Ali· Poetry attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina
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islam.museum contributors. “The Cairo Trilogy”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/al-thulathiyya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.