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ʕĪsà ʕUbayd, Muqaddima (1921)

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III-§1.a

حتّى يساعدنا على إدخال هذا النوع الجديد في آدابنا العصرية المصرية .

ḥattà yusāʕida-nā ʕalà ʔidḫāl hāḏā ’l-nawʕ al-ǧadīd fī ʔādābi-nā ’l-ʕaṣriyyaẗ al-miṣriyyaẗ.

[in this way] may help us introduce this new literary genre into Egyptian literature¹ of our time.

1. ʔādāb may well mean more than just ‘literature’ here, perhaps ‘culture’, ‘literary culture’, or ‘cultural life’. See also below, passim.

AR: nawʕ, ǧadīd, ʔādāb, ʕaṣrī (ʕaṣriyyaẗ), miṣrī (Miṣr / Miṣriyyaẗ)
EN: …

ثمّ إن أهمّ تلك العيوب في عرفنا بعد عيوب الخيال وقلّة الملاحظة وعدم التحليل التي نوّهنا عنها ضعف ملكة الوصف والتصوير ،

ṯumma ʔinna ʔahamm^a tilka ’l-ʕuyūb fī ʕurfi-nā baʕd^a ʕuyūb al-ḫayāl wa-qillaẗ al-mulāḥaẓaẗ wa-ʕadam al-taḥlīl allatī nawwahnā ʕan-hā ḍuʕf^u malakaẗⁱ ’l-waṣf wa’l-taṣwīr,

Also, the (to our knowledge) most important defect after those, referred to above, of [excessive] fantasy, lack of observation and absence of [psychological] analysis, is the lack² of talent to describe and present.

2. Lit., ‘weakness’.

AR: ʕuyūb (ʕayb), ḫayāl, mulāḥaẓaẗ, taḥlīl, ḍuʕf, malakaẗ, waṣf, taṣwīr
EN: [excessive] fantasy, observation, [psychological] analysis, describe, present

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