Muḥammad ʿUthmān Jalāl ( ar , محمد عثمان جلال , Muḥammad ʿUthmān Jalāl , transl-std=ALA; 1829–1898) was an Egyptian dramatist, translator and author. Jalal (known as Galal) was the son of a minor official of Turkish ancestry who had married an Egyptian woman. He was one of the most prolific adapters of French plays and literary texts by La Fontaine, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world ...

, and

Racine Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western traditio ...

, as well as plays by

Carlo Goldoni Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to: *Carlo (name) *Monte Carlo *Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia *A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince Char ...

. He rendered several plays by Molière, Racine and Goldoni in the colloquial

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, including a version of Molière's '' Tartuffe'', '.

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{{reflist 1829 births 1898 deaths 20th-century Egyptian writers Egyptian dramatists and playwrights