Ahmed Pasha Timur (1871-1930)
Ahmed Pasha Timur. A prominent Egyptian writer, he was born in Cairo to a Kurdish father and a Turkish mother. His father died when he was three months old, and his sister, Aisha al-Taymuri, raised him. He studied at the hands of Sheikh Muhammad Abdo and believed in his ideas. Although he spent his life researching and excavating, he was careful not to publish his books during his lifetime. Consequently, a committee headed by the great intellectual Ahmed Lutfi al-Sayed met after his death and published a large number of his books that varied in history, language, translations and Islamic jurisprudence. In addition to this unique dictionary of Egyptian colloquial proverbs, and his other dictionary of Egyptian colloquial words. Timur wrote about other Arabic dialects, and even went beyond that to write about the history of photography, music, engineering and jurisprudence among Muslims. In this book, the author compiled a description of the games that Arab children used to play in the past. Where we can discern the educational values and traditions that were instilled in the hearts of children through play; Such as patience, cooperation, fair competition, and so on
