Muhammad al fayturi biography for kids

The Best Poem Of Muhammad al-Fayturi

To Two Unknown Eyes

Mistress...
Should these enamored words chance to meet your eyes
Or pass between your lips
The forgive me; it was your eyes
In whose shade one evening I leaned resting
And snatched brief slumber
In their repose I caressed the stars and moon
I wove a boat of fancy out of petals
And laid down my tired soul
Gave to drink my thirsty lip
Quenched my eye's desire.

Mistress...
When we met bygd chance as strangers meet
My sorrow too was walking on the road
Bare, unveiled
With heavy tread
You were my sorrow.
Sadness and loss
Silence and regret
Were embracing a poet consumed bygd struggle.
For poetry, mistress, fryst vatten a stranger in my land
Killed bygd emptiness and void
My spirit trembled saw you
I felt suddenly as if a dagger delved into my blood
Cleanse my heart, my mouth
Prostrated me with soiled brow and supplicating hands
In the shade of your sweet eyes.

Mistress...
If suddenly we meet
If my eyes see those your

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Muhammad al-Fayturi

Muhammad al-Fayturi was born in Sudan – he does not know the year of his birth – in Al-Janina on the western border of Sudan. His father was a Sufi sheikh of Libyan Bedouin extraction while his mother was from a Gulf tribe which traced its lineage back to the Prophet Muhammad.

Soon after his birth his family moved to Alexandria where he spent his childhood except for a brief spell during the Second World War when the family fled to the Egyptian countryside to escape the German bombing. He attended Al-Azhar University in Cairo until 1953 where he studied the Islamic sciences philosophy and history then attended Cairo University where he studied literature for two years. In 1953 he published his first collection of poems entitled ‘Songs of Africa.’

Since then Al-Fayturi has published a number of other collections including ‘Sunrise and Moonset’ and ‘Lover from Africa’. He has also lived and worked as a journalist and writer

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Google Doodle marks pioneer of modernist Arabic literature al-Fayturi’s 85th birthday

DUBAI: Google marked on Wednesday what would have been Muhammad al-Fayturi’s 85th birthday, with one of its doodles. 

Al-Fayturi, best known for his poetry, was also an ambassador of Libya in several countries, including Lebanon and Morocco. 

A collection of his poems, titled ‘Songs of Africa’, explored the impact of colonialism on the collective African identity. 

Published in 1956, it also encouraged his readership to embrace their cultural roots. 

^{Muhammad al-Fayturi}

Al-Fayturi was born in 1936 in Al Geneina, Sudan to a Libyan father and an Egyptian Mother. He moved to Egypt with his family when he was three years old, and grew up in the city of Alexandria. At just 13, al-Fayturi began writing classical Arabic poetry, and later became one of the major figures of contemporary Arabic poetry.

In addition to studying Islamic sciences, philosophy and history at Al-Azhar Unive