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Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel / Ziad Elmarsafy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMALPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748641406
  • 9780748655649
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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