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Ahmed Zaki: An Egyptian Arab thinker, considered one of the pillars of the modern Arab renaissance, the first to introduce punctuation marks in modern Arabic writing, and the owner of a personal library of about eighteen thousand volumes, the first to give Andalusia the famous name “Paradise Lost”, and the first to The term “investigation” was used on the covers of Arabic books, and he is one of the pioneers who worked on collecting manuscripts, photographing and verifying them, and was called the “Sheikh of Arabism.” “Ahmed Zaki Pasha Ibrahim” was born in 1867 AD, and his father died when he was young, so he was sponsored by his uncle, who was president of the National Court of First Instance. Ahmed Zaki was educated in Cairo, and graduated from the School of Administration (Faculty of Law) in 1887 AD. Zaki was fully proficient in French in addition to English, Italian and Latin. He also worked as a translator in the Cabinet and rose in positions until he became Secretary of the Council in 1911 AD, until he was referred to retire. Ahmed Zaki Pasha was a contemporary of the great figures of the Arab Renaissance, such as Rifa’a Al-Tahtawi, Jamal Al-Din Al-Afghani, and Muhammad Abdo. He traveled to England, France, Italy, and Spain, as well as to the Levant, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Yemen, and Cyprus. These travels left a great impact on his scientific and literary life. Where it allowed him to visit dozens of libraries and see the literature of the flags of the East and West. The man devoted his intellectual efforts to investigation, translation and authorship. He wrote in history, travel literature, literature and language, and made many manuscripts. He gave us more than thirty authored books, and translated many books, in addition to hundreds of articles he wrote in a group of Arab newspapers and magazines - at that time - such as Al-Ahram, Al-Muqattam, Al-Balagh, Al-Moayad, Al-Hilal, Al-Miqtaf, Al-Ma`rifa, Al-Shura, and the Journal of the Scientific Council (Damascus). ). Zaki was distinguished by his criticism of traditional methods of writing, as he demanded a clear and familiar language that meets the intellectual and civilized needs of the nation. He died in 1934 of a severe cold.