Muhammad Aziz Al-Arfaj is a Saudi writer, poet and journalist.
Biography He was born on 15 October 1980 in the city of Riyadh and raised there after his father moved for a long period of time from Khab Al-Muraydisiyah, one of the villages adjacent to the city of Buraidah in Al-Qassim region, north of Najd, and his marriage to his mother, who belongs to the Banu Al-Asmar tribe in Asir, southern Saudi Arabia.
His father, who came from a rural family interested in agriculture, was an inspector and advisor in the Saudi Ministry of Interior after completing his university education at the College of Sharia in Riyadh. He was a popular poet, oral tale narrator, memorizer of lengthy Arabic anecdotes, and a lover of history, while his mother, who was also from a mountainous environment, was concerned with in agriculture as well, an abyss of collecting intangible heritage, and saying folk poetry.
Arfaj is a researcher in Nabati poetry, al-Humayni poetry, al-Hourani poetry, folklore, and popular poetry in the Arab world. He writes in Al-Riyadh newspaper in particular and in many Arab and international newspapers and has published many books, novels and books. The most prominent of them is the novel "The Top Floor" and the book "Popular Heritage In The Arab Narrative".
In 2003, he moved from the city of Riyadh to the city of Aden in Yemen to work for several years in the diplomatic corps, and his name was closely associated with the Yemeni cultural scene through his work for years during which he was able to approach Yemeni heritage and literature, and this crystallized in the form of dozens of studies that he wrote On Yemeni literature and the Humayni poetry in particular, and a novel titled "The Top Floor" was published for him, which was printed in Beirut, its events take place in the Yemeni environment.
In Yemen, he made contributions to the Hamini Nabatean relations between the Humayni and Nabati poetry and he is also the first to discover the original homeland of Bani Hilal, the owners of the Hilali biography.
Then he submitted his resignation from working in the Saudi diplomatic corps and returned to Riyadh to be a member of the Literary Club in Riyadh. He resided in the city of Chicago in the United States of America, and established the Spiritual Cultural Forum there before returning again to Riyadh and settling there.
His books
Poetry +TitleLanguagePublisherYearPagesISBNThe Seasons – a Divan of Free Poetry.Arabic2016Rural Najd – A Divan of Nabati Poetry.Arabic2020The Land of Yemen – A Divan of Humayni's PoetryArabicClouds of Love: A Divan of Nabati Poetry.Arabic2020141
Short story TitleLanguagePublisherYearPagesISBNOCLC NumberShivers between crying and terror.ArabicAl-intishar Alarabi Foundation2018461141735673Wednesday TroublesArabic201661And She Came Back After An Absence.Arabic2018A Piece Of Ice.Arabic2019
Novel TitleLanguagePublisherYearPagesThe Top Floor.ArabicDar Al-Gawon2011128
Children's literature and arts TitleLanguagePublisherYearPagesISBNOCLC NumberSaqt Allewa: a novel for boys.ArabicHail Literary and Cultural Club201771 1193218981Baby Feather Series.Arabic
Women's culture and arts TitleLanguageYearISBNA Woman's Feelings (Part One) Early life, poets, readings, dialogues.Arabic2016A Woman's Feelings (Part Two) Formation Sculpture OrgamiArabic2020
Literature letters TitleLanguageYearFrom Ali Saleh to Mr. Trump.Arabic2020To whom do you leave your son, father?.Arabic2020
Literary and intellectual studies TitleLanguagePublisherYearPagesISBNOCLC NumberMyths of the Islamic Awakening: StudiesArabicArwiqah Foundation for Studies, Translation and Publishing: Ruya Center for Studies20192201104685524Folk tale and oral poetry in theatre, story and novel: Studies.ArabicNajran Literary and Cultural Club20191901122542928The roots of Nabati poetry in the art of chanting and weights and the rooting of Nabati poetry and the stages of its development and its influence by Hamini and the Sufi school.ArabicHamalil Foundation for Media20151291960392Folklore in the Arab narrative.ArabicThe Arabic Magazine.20131049184190Captain of the investigations of folk arts in the Arab Gulf.Arabic201468Nabati Poetry Roots.ArabicHamalil Foundation for Media2015220
Co-author TitleLanguageYearNoteSultan of Songs and difficult departure.Arabic2013with other Arab writers.Abdul Karim Al -Jahiman .. Echoes of departure.Arabic2014with other Saudi writers.Narratives of Khaled Al-YoussefArabic2020with other Arab writers.
See also
Tahir Zamakhshari Abdullah bin Khamis Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Aqili
References