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Taha Husayn's Education: From the Azhar to the Sorbonne by Abdelrashid Mahmoudi (Richmond: Curzon Press, 1998). Pp. 241, bibliography and index. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7007-1027-2.

Probably no Arab author has been as influential in shaping Arab intellectual life in the twentieth century as the Egyptian Taha Husayn (1889-1973). Few Arab authors can also be said to have embraced Western culture and to have worked through their writing and the public offices they occupied to disseminate and emulate it in their countries with the unwaning dedication and enthusiasm that ...