Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel / / Ziad Elmarsafy.
Close readings of 9 contemporary Arab novelists who use Sufism as a literary strategySufi characters – saints, dervishes, wanderers – occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists interrogates Sufism as a system of thought and language. In the work of writers like Naguib M...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Ouverture -- 1 Naguib Mahfouz: (En)chanting Justice -- 2 Tayeb Salih: The Returns of the Saint -- 3 Maḥmūd Al-Masʿadī: Witnessing Immortality -- 4 The Survival of Gamal Al-Ghitany -- 5 Ibrahim Al-Koni: Writing and Sacrifice -- 6 Tahar Ouettar: The Saint and the Nightmare of History -- Epilogue: Bahaa Taher, Solidarity and Idealism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Close readings of 9 contemporary Arab novelists who use Sufism as a literary strategySufi characters – saints, dervishes, wanderers – occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists interrogates Sufism as a system of thought and language. In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Taher Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas’adi and Tayeb Salih we see a strong intertextual relationship with the Sufi masters of the past, including Al-Hallaj, Ibn Arabi, Al-Niffari and Al-Suhrawardi. This relationship interrogates the limits of the creative self, individuality, rationality and all the possibilities offered by literature. In this dialogue with the mystical heritage, these novelists seek a way of preserving a self under siege from the overwhelming forces of oppression and reaction that characterised the late 20th and early 21st centuries. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780748655649 9783110780468 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780748655649 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ziad Elmarsafy. |