The Return of the Spirit also known as The Soul Return is a novel by an Egyptian writer Tawfiq Al Hakim, as he finished writing it year 1927 while he was a student in France and published it in the year 1933. The novel was the result of a set of literary and political factors that Al Hakim was influenced by as writers of his generation in Egypt, in a period between the two wars. However, among the most important of them is 1919 revolution, which constituted a victory national idea in the political field as it gave the thinkers hope for achieving the Egyptian character. Source: Wikipedia (en)