TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elmarsafy,Ziad
TI  - Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel
T2  - Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
SN  - 9780748641406
U1  - 810 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Arabic prose literature
KW  - Sufism in literature
KW  - Islamic Studies
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Series Editor’s Foreword --; Abbreviations --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Ouverture --; 1 Naguib Mahfouz: (En)chanting Justice --; 2 Tayeb Salih: The Returns of the Saint --; 3 Maḥmūd Al-Masʿadī: 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; restricted access
N2  - Close readings of 9 contemporary Arab novelists who use Sufism as a literary strategySufi characters – saints, dervishes, wanderers – occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists interrogates 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 interrogates the limits of the creative self, individuality, rationality and all the possibilities offered by literature. In this dialogue with the mystical heritage, these novelists seek a way of preserving a self under siege from the overwhelming forces of oppression and reaction that characterised the late 20th and early 21st centuries
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748655649
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748655649
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748655649/original
ER  -