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1 online resource (xii, 260 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
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Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index. |
Contents |
Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ouverture; 1. Naguib Mahfouz: (En)chanting Justice; 2. Tayeb Salih: The Returns of the Saint; 3. Mahmud Al-Maʻadı: 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. |
Summary |
Sufi characters - saints, dervishes, wanderers - occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists to interrogate 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 becomes a means of interrogating the limits of the creative self, individuality, rationality and the manifold possibilities offered by. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Sufism in literature.
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Sufism in literature. |
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Arabic prose literature.
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Arabic prose literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Elmarsafy, Ziad. Sufism in the contemporary arabic novel. Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ Press, 2012 0748641408 (OCoLC)769743923 |
ISBN |
9780748655649 (electronic book) |
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0748655646 (electronic book) |
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1299105726 |
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9781299105720 |
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0748641408 |
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9780748641406 |
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0748695850 |
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9780748695850 |
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