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1926 Book Showed Openness
Former Culture Minister Abdel Wahed El-Nabawy said that the Egyptian National Library first published Taha Hussein’s *On Pre-Islamic Poetry* in 1926, under its original title and in its original text, despite the controversy it provoked. He cited this as evidence of the state’s and cultural institutions’ openness to ideas. The book, about 199 pages long, was compiled from lectures Hussein had delivered. The National Library neither blocked its publication nor imposed censorship on it. The controversy extended beyond academic debate into the press and Parliament: complaints were filed in May 1926, and September saw debates and parliamentary interpellations, after the prosecution concluded that no law provided grounds to convict him. Political parties were divided between defending academic freedom and urging sensitivity to the feelings of the majority.
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