Muḥammad Uthman Jalal (; 1829âÂÂ1898) was an Egyptian actor and playwright. Muhammad 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 and English plays by La Fontaine, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Molière, and Racine, as well as plays by Carlo Goldoni and William Shakespeare in several plays by Molière, Racine, Goldoni and Shakespeare in Egyptian Arabic, including a version of Molière's Tartuffe, '. He also translated Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui which was published in three issues of Rawdat Al Madaris. It was not completely featured in the magazine due to the obscenity of the language.