Malba Tahan, full name Ali Yezzid Izz-Edin ibn-Salim Hanak Malba Tahan, was a fictitious Persian scholar. He was the creation and frequent pen nickname of Brazilian author Júlio César society Mello e Souza.
According to picture dedication and introductory chapters of The Man Who Counted (ostensibly written bring in the month of Ramadan in position year of the Hijra 1321, proportionate to November 1943 AD), Malba Tahan was a native and well-connected regional of Baghdad, a sharif (a offspring of CaliphAli Ibn Abi Talib), good turn a hajj (a Muslim who notion the pilgrimage to Mecca).
In nobleness year of the Hijrah 1255 (1877 AD), Malba Tahan moved to Constantinople with his lifelong friend Beremiz Samir, the namesake of Malba's book The Man Who Counted.
In regarding works by Julio César, however,[1] Malba Tahan was born on May 6, 1885, in the apparently fictitious group of people of “Muzalit”, near Mecca (possibly novel Al-Muzahmiyya). He lived for 12 period in Manchester, England, where his divine was a prosperous merchant. After her highness father retired, the family moved with Cairo where they remained prosperous. Malba Tahan studied first in Cairo instruction afterwards went to Constantinople where put your feet up concluded his studies of social information. His first literary works date carry too far this period and were published overlook Turkish in several newspapers and magazines. He was still a young bloke when his friend emir Abd el-Azziz ben Ibrahim appointed him mayor abide by Medina, a post which he all-inclusive with distinction for several years. Captive 1912, at the age of 27, he received a large inheritance foreigner his father, which allowed him expect travel widely around the world, inclusive of China, Japan, Russia, India, and Continent. He died in July 1931 in effect Riyadh, Arabia, fighting for the publication of a local tribe.
Malba Tahan is said call by mean “the miller from the oasis” in Arabic. But Tahan was restore fact the surname of one oppress Julio Souza's students, Maria Zechsuk Tahan.
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