What is "zaynab"

Muhammad Husayn Haykal's novel Zaynab (commonly pronounced ) is considered the first modern Egyptian novel, published in 1913. The full title in Arabic is زينب: مناظر واخلاق ريفية ("Zaynab: Manazir wa'akhlaq rifiyyah," or "Zaynab: Country Scenes and Morals"). The book depicts life in the Egyptian countryside and delves into the traditional romantic and marital relationships between men and women and the interactions between the laboring cotton worker and plantation owner classes.

The novel is a seminal event in Egyptian literature, since it was the first to feature a fully described, contemporary Egyptian setting and the first to feature dialogue in the Egyptian vernacular rather than formal standard written Arabic. Haykal, son of rural land owners himself, had spent considerable time in France, where he was studying to be a lawyer, and it was actually at this point that he wrote Zaynab in 1911. Notably in the first publication, the author chose the pseudonym Masri Fallah ("An Egyptian Rustic"), which perhaps underlines the lack of prestige attached to the genre at the time of his writing.

Zainab may refer to:

• Zaynab (novel) or Zaynab: Country Scenes and Moral, considered the first modern Egyptian novel, published 1913
• Zaynab (name)

'''Zaynab ''' (also spelled Zainab, Zeinab, Zeynab, Zinab, Zeineb, and in other ways; , ) is a female given name meaning "fragrant flower". Zaynab is the name of the daughter and the granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Mohammad. It is believed to be a modification of the name of a pre- Islam Syrian queen that is rendered in Greek as Zenobia. It is also closely connected to the Hebrew name 'Zenyeb' (Zeyn-abi/Zeyn-aba) which means 'Pride of [her] father'.

Bosnian forms of the name are "Zeineb", "Zejneb" and "Zejneba".
Turkish form of the name is Zeynep.

Famous people called Zaynab include:

• Zaynab bint Muhammad, daughter of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid and Muhammad
• Zaynab bint Ali, daughter of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the sister of Husayn ibn Ali, and granddaughter of Muhammad
• Zaynab bint Khuzayma, a wife of Muhammad
• Zaynab bint Jahsh, a wife of Muhammad
• Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyat, an influential figure in the Almoravid movement
• Zeinab Badawi, Sudanese-British television and radio journalist for the BBC
• Zainab Masood, a character in the British TV soap opera EastEnders