Najib Kilani

He died at 63 on Shawwal 2, 1415 AH, corresponding to March 7, 1995.

As Naguib Mahfouz said about him in the October 1989 issue: "Naguib Al-Kilani is the theorist of Islamic literature now." This is because his critical statements and his novel and short stories constitute the features of a literary theory that has its size and strong evidence, which was reinforced by his studies on "The Perspectives of Islamic Literature," "Islamic and Literary Doctrines," "Islamic Literature between Theory and Practice" and "An Introduction to Islamic Literature," and My personal experience in the Islamic story.

• Gold Medal from the President of Pakistan, 1978.

Many of his fictional works turned into works of art, as the movie Night and Rods for his novel "The Night of the Slaves" won the first prize at the Tashkent Film Festival in 1964. The book "The Promised Night" was turned into a radio and television series, a joint Egyptian-Libyan production presented in the month of Ramadan under the name (The Ruby of the Epic of Love and Peace). 1973. The novel "Those Who Burn" was also turned into an Egyptian television series "Those who burn" in 1977.

• “Fi Aldalam” (In the dark), a novel that won the same award in the following year, 1961, AD

In 1960, Al-Kilani married the Islamic writer Karima Shaheen, sister of the Egyptian radio writer Nafisa Shaheen, and had three sons.

• “Alyaom Almaood” (The Promised Day) novel, 1960, which won the award of the Supreme Council for the Sponsorship of Arts and Letters in Egypt in the same year,

• The Supreme Council for Arts and Letters, 1960,

Najib Al-Kilani married in 1960 from the Islamic writer Karima Shaheen, sister of the Egyptian radio writer Nafisa Shaheen. They had three sons.

• Taha Hussein's gold medal from Al-Qasra Club, 1959,

His first prose work in detention in 1956 AD, inaugurated by the novel The Long Way, which won the award of the Ministry of Education in 1957 AD and then decided to teach secondary school students in the second grade of secondary in 1959 AD.

He was arrested more than once. After the Al-Manshiya incident on October 26, 1954 AD, Abdel Nasser detained many of the Muslim Brotherhood, brought them to trial, and sentenced them to various sentences, leaving their families without a breadwinner. Nasser's regime did so, so he arrested everyone who helped these families and brought them to court under the name of organizing funding. Najib al-Kilani was one of those arrested on August 7, 1955 AD. He was taken to the military prison and sentenced to ten years in jail, but he was granted a health pardon. He was released after serving 40 months in jail.

He joined the primary school, the American Missionary Primary School in the village of Sunbat, then spent high school in the city of Tanta, and finally joined the Faculty of Medicine in Cairo in 1951 AD. After graduating, he worked as a “distinction doctor” at “Umm Al Masryeen Hospital” in Giza in 1961 AD. He was a practicing doctor in his village, then moved to work in the Ministry of Transport and Communications. He received his job in the medical department of the Railways Authority. He traveled to the State of Kuwait to work as a doctor there on the thirty-first day of March 1968 AD, then he moved from there to the United Arab Emirates and spent nearly sixteen years there.

Kilani was able to use several methods of narrating in his poetry, such as symbols, convincing dialogue, narration, successive expression, flashbacks (remembering the past and going back) and paradox, and clips cut through the unique, expressive forms and contents, as Dr. Jaber Qameha, the first of his collections of "Nahwa Al-Ula" in 1950 in high school times, the last of which was "The Pearl of the Gulf," which is the unfinished book, as well as "How to Meet You," "The Age of Martyrs," "Songs of Strangers" and "City of Major Sins," and Migrant" and "Songs of the Long Night."

Najeeb Al-Kilani joined the Brotherhood's call at an early age. It affected his ideas and beliefs, provided him with much knowledge and religious and worldly sciences, and had the most significant impact on forming his political mentality. Najib began to get acquainted with the Muslim Brotherhood group in Zefta through the celebration held in Mit Ghamr to celebrate the occasion of Muhammad's migration in 1948 AD. The reason for rallying around this group was to found a new style of rhetoric and celebration of religious occasions, so he opened his heart and mind to what he heard from them, and what caught his eye was the chants that they chanted, as it was expected - at that time - that most parties chant about the lives of leaders and prominent people with them. However, on that night, he heard a unique chat (God is great, praise be to God, God is our goal, the Messenger is our leader, the Qur'an is our constitution, jihad is our way, death for the sake of God is our highest wish).

Naguib al-Kilani (June 1, 1931 - March 7, 1995) was an Egyptian poet and novelist.

Naguib Abd al-Latif Ibrahim al-Kilani was born on June 1931 AD, corresponding to Muharram 1350 AH. He was taken to the village of Shershaba, affiliated with the Zefta Center in the Gharbia Governorate in Egypt. At the age of four, when he learned reading, writing, arithmetic, some hadiths, the biography of Muhammad, the stories of the prophets, and the stories of the Qur’an, his family worked in agriculture. Since he was young, he worked with the family’s children in the fields.