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ʕĪsà ʕUbayd, Muqaddima (1921)

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III-§1.a

وليس غرضنا أنْ ندرس في هذه المقدّمة الوجيزة عيوب الكاتب المصري وأمراض ذهنيته فقد حاولنا درسها في كتاب سننشره على حِدة .

wa-laysa ġaraḍu-nā ʔan nadrus^a fī hāḏihī ’l-muqaddimaẗⁱ ’l-waǧīzaẗ ʕuyūb al-kātib al-miṣrī wa-ʔamrāḍ ḏihniyyati-h fa-qad ḥāwalnā darsa-hā fī kitāb sa-nanšuru-hū ʕalà ḥidaẗ.

It is not our aim in this brief preface to study what is wrong with the Egyptian writer, or his mental diseases – we have attempted to study all this in a book that we are going to publish separately.¹

1. It is not clear which book ʕUbayd is talking about here – perhaps the same as the one he mentions further below?

AR: darasa (dars / dirāsaẗ), ʕuyūb (ʕayb), kātib, miṣrī (Miṣr / Miṣriyyaẗ), ʔamrāḍ (maraḍ, maraḍī), ḏihniyyaẗ
EN: …

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