Naguib Mahfouz is regarded as one of the forerunners to establish novel as a literary genre in Arabic literature. Despite the fact that there were many different types of storytelling, none of them could be categorized as novels in the modern sense. Arab scholars typically credit the Egyptian novelist Muhammad Hussein Haykal with making the first sincere attempt to write the novel Zaynab in 1913. The unexplored world of fiction was soon to be explored by authors like Taha Hussein, Abbas Al-Aqqad, Ibrahim Al-Mazini, and Tawfiq Al-Hakim etc. The most famous modern Arab novelist Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1988. Mahfouz is a man of paradox who is well-versed in western culture. He is considered the father of the Arabic novel and his career has essentially covered the whole spectrum of novelistic advancement in the Arab world. Mahfouz improved his book through the use of fresh or more suitable techniques. His books are written in Egypt during the Second World War, a country that was experiencing political and social unrest at the time. Another significant themeof Naguib Mahfouz's works is humanism. In this paper, focus will be made on Portrayal of Humanism in his novels.

Naguib Mahfouz, Modern Arabic literature, Novel, Trilogy, Humanism, Social aspects