Contributions of Sheikh Abdul Aziz Zia al-Din Zahid Murad to the Literature of Biography and Autobiography

Abstract

Sheikh Abdul Aziz Zia al-Din Zahid Murad was considered as one of the most prominent Saudi writers who made tremendous contributions to genre of modern Arabic literatures, such as: Drama, Novel, Short Story, Children Literature, Autobiography and Biography etc. Sheikh Aziz Zia has written two important books in the Biography Literature. The first one is: ‘Bridges to the Summit’ and the second is titled ‘Hamza Shehata: A Summit that was known and not discovered’. Besides these, he has written his autobiography titled ‘My Life with Hunger, Love and War’ in three volumes.

The aim of the paper is to discuss about the originality of the art of biography in the shade of his two books. Moreover, it presents an extensive and analytical study of his Arabic Autobiography by highlighting social, cultural and political issues that he has focused on. 

The paper mentions the literary and artistic styles that the writer dealt with in his autobiography by indicating some important opinions and suggestions expressed by the most prominent writers and readers about the book which gained great reputation among the researchers and academicians in a short period.