| 1985 deals with conflict between old and new religious truths | Deseret Morning News editorial 7 September 2006 |
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| Before the Nobel Prize only a few of his novels had appeared in the West | Subsequently, he lived under constant bodyguard protection |
But later, in the semi-autobiographical novel Mirrors, Mahfouz drew a negative portrait of Qutb.
2| Themes like the nature of time and love, society and norms, knowledge and faith recur in a variety of situations and are presented in thought-provoking, evocative, and clearly daring ways | In 1967 he employed a form of multiple |
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| Copies of the were hard to find prior to the late 1990s | Mahfouz was given police protection, but in 1994 an extremist succeeded in attacking the 82-year-old novelist by stabbing him in the neck outside his Cairo home |
His father, Abdel-Aziz Ibrahim, whom Mahfouz described as having been "old-fashioned", was a civil servant, and Mahfouz eventually followed in his footsteps in 1934.
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