The Literary Qur'an : : Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb / / Hoda El Shakry.
The novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the possibilities of novelistic form and literary exegesis exceed the secularizing tendencies of contemporary literary criticism. Showing how the Qurʾan itself invites and enacts critical reading, Hoda El Shakry's Qurʾ...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Translations and Transliterations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: The Ethics of Reading
- Introduction. The Quʾran as (Inter)text: Embodiment, Praxis, Critique
- Part I. Poetics of Piety
- 1. Existential Poiesis in Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī's Mawlid al-nisyān
- 2. Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb's Talismano
- Part II. Ethics of Embodiment
- 3. Apocalyptic Aftershocks in al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār's Al-zilzāl
- 4. The Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia
- Part III. Genealogies of Transmission
- 5. Tense Eruptions in Driss Chraïbi's Le passé simple
- 6. Threads of Transmission in Muḥammad Barrāda's Luʿbat al-nisyān
- Epilogue: Poetics, Politics, Piety
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author