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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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