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035 _a(DE-B1597)616052
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aElmarsafy, Ziad
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel /
_cZiad Elmarsafy.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (256 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aEdinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature : ESMAL
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tSeries Editor’s Foreword --
_tAbbreviations --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tIntroduction: Ouverture --
_t1 Naguib Mahfouz: (En)chanting Justice --
_t2 Tayeb Salih: The Returns of the Saint --
_t3 Maḥmūd Al-Masʿadī: Witnessing Immortality --
_t4 The Survival of Gamal Al-Ghitany --
_t5 Ibrahim Al-Koni: Writing and Sacrifice --
_t6 Tahar Ouettar: The Saint and the Nightmare of History --
_tEpilogue: Bahaa Taher, Solidarity and Idealism --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aClose 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
650 0 _aArabic prose literature.
650 0 _aSufism in literature.
650 4 _aIslamic Studies.
650 7 _aFOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Arabic.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780748655649
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