The break-up of the school and the fate of its founders

04The break-up of the school and the fate of its founders

• The friendship of the three failed after a time, and the group dispersed when Shukri attacked al-Mazini over a difference on some literary questions, and al-Aqqad took al-Mazini's side.
• Shukri: stopped writing poetry after his seventh diwan, "Flowers of Autumn", and gave himself to isolation.
• Al-Mazini: turned from poetry after his second diwan (1917) and preferred the short story and the newspaper article.
• Al-Aqqad: remained alone representing the direction, but put poetry second in his interests late in life, after his political, social, literary and Islamic writings.
• Writers who studied under al-Aqqad and carried the direction on include Mahmoud Imad, Abdul Rahman Sadiqi and Ali Ahmad Bakatheir and al-Hassani Abdullah in Egypt, and Muhammad Hasan Awwad in Saudi Arabia, with others in the Arab lands.