Osman Muhammad Hashim

Osman Muhammad Hashim was born at the end of 1897 in Berber, in northern Sudan, among the Hashmab, a family of religious judges: his father, qadi of Khartoum, also composed verse. He went from the Quranic school to the primary school of Berber and then, after his father's death in 1910, entered Gordon College, where he met Muhammad Naguib, the future president of Egypt. A post and telegraph employee from 1915, he supported the 1924 uprising with his poems, then settled in Cairo, at the Ministry of Irrigation. A renowned calligrapher, he was nicknamed Osman al-Thuluth. He died in Omdurman in 1981.

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• NovelتاجوجOsman Muhammad Hashim · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature