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Author Phillips, Christina, author.

Title Religion in the Egyptian novel / Christina Phillips.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
text file
Series Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature
Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Religion in the Egyptian Novel -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- 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
Summary This is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early twentieth century to 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Arabic literature -- Egypt -- History and criticism.
Arabic literature.
Egypt.
Religion in literature.
Religion in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9781474417068 147441706X (OCoLC)1110439553
ISBN 9781474417075 (electronic book)
1474417078 (electronic book)
147441706X
9781474417068
9781474417068
147441706X
Standard No. 9781474417068