- ʿAlī Aḥmad Bākthīr’s (1910 – 1969, Egypt) play Al-Malḥama al-Islāmiyyah al-Kubrā ʿUmar (‘The great Islamic epic : Umar’, ) consists of 19 volumes and is based on early Islamic history in the time of the second Caliph, ʿUmar bin al-Khaṭṭāb (reference).
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- Eeqbal Hassim. 2009. “The significance of Qur’anic Verses in the Literature of Ali Ahmad Bakathir: Case studies of al-Silsila wa al-Ghufran and al-Duktur Hazim.” NCEIS Research Papers 1(3), p. 7