Mustafā Lutfī al-Manfalūtī and analysis of his work named al-Nazarāt

This study deals with the life of the Egyptian writer Mustafā Lutfī al-Manfalūtī, his literary personality, and al-Nazarāt. The primary source used in the thesis is al-Nazarāt. In the study, besides the use of Arab resources, Turkish resources are used as well. The study consists of two main parts. In the first part, the period in which Manfalūtī lived is discussed, and his life and literary personality are included. In the second part, al-Nazarāt has been analyzed. As a result of the study, Manfalûti's importance in Arabic literature has been revealed. It has been reached that in al-Nazarāt, he included various subjects, and he didn't ignore the problems in society and the world. It has been observed that Manfalūtī is a writer who is influenced by the romanticism movement, has a melancholic structure, and has some common aspects with the cynics. The stories Manfalūtī included in al-Nazarāt were short. He generally referred to social problems in these stories. The persons in his stories didn't exceed two-three persons. Since the message to convey in the stories are more important, and the time and place elements have remained in the background. Manfalūtī mostly used the dialogue technique in his stories. Manfalūtī wrote al-Nazarāt in fluent Arabic, used the elements of rhetoric, and included āyāt and poems in it. Finally, it's concluded that Manfalūtī influenced the leading names of Arabic literature and that al-Nazarāt is a resource worth using in the area of the Arabic language.