Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Elmarsafy, Ziad.

Title Sufism in the contemporary arabic novel / Ziad Elmarsafy.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ Press, 2012.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
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.
Sufism in literature.
Arabic prose literature.
Arabic prose literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Elmarsafy, Ziad. Sufism in the contemporary arabic novel. Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ Press, 2012 0748641408 (OCoLC)769743923
ISBN 9780748655649 (electronic book)
0748655646 (electronic book)
1299105726
9781299105720
0748641408
9780748641406
0748695850
9780748695850