Mustafa Lutfi el-Manfaluti (, ; 1876âÂÂ1924) was an Egyptian writer, and poet who wrote a number of Arabic books. He was born in the Upper Egyptian city of Manfalut to an Egyptian father and a Turkish mother.
el-Manfaluti memorized the Quran before the age of twelve. He studied at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He translated, and novelized plays from French. Moreover, el-Manfaluti wrote and translated several short stories. He began writing Al-Nazarat in 1907, which is his most famous work, including a collection of his articles under the title: Al-Nazarat ().
One of el-Manfaluti's most notable traits is that he couldn't read or speak French. He asked some of his friends to translate the play or the book to Arabic, then he rewrote them.
Some of his books include: