Religion in the Egyptian Novel / / Christina Phillips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Phillips, Christina,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Editor’s Foreword --; Acknowledgements --; Part 1 --; 1 Introduction: Religion and the Novel --; 2 The Religious Other --; 3 The Secular Scripture --; Part 2 --; 4 Introduction: Religion, the Egyptian Novel and the New Literary Sensibility --; 5 Intertextual Dialogues --; 6 The Coptic Theme --; 7 Mystical Dimensions --; 8 Feminist Perspectives --; Conclusion --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474417075; 9783110780420
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474417075?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christina Phillips.

Charts the struggle between religious and secular discourse in the Egyptian novelAnalyses religious themes in 18 Egyptian novels, drawing on a range of critical theoriesFirst close study of the Coptic theme in the Arabic novelIncludes close readings of key works such as the Mahfouz’s trilogy, as well as important but overlooked works such Mahfouz’s Hikayat Haratna and ‘Asda al-Sirat al-Dhatiyya, and ‘Abd al-Hakim Qasim’s Al-Mahdi and Turaf Akhbar al-AkhiraThis in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel traces the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early 20th century to the present. Phillips provides a thematic exploration of the push and pull between religion and secularism as it played out on the pages of the Egyptian novel. Through close readings of representative texts, the book reveals the manifold ways in which Islam, Christianity, Sufism, myth, ritual and intertext have engaged in modern Arabic literature and culture more broadly.