Ziad Elmarsafy

Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 literature, seeking in a dialogue with the mystical heritage a way of preserving a self under siege from the overwhelming forces of oppression and reaction that have characterised the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748655663
• Artikelnr.: 56904528

Autorenporträt

Ziad Elmarsafy is Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. In the past he taught at the University of California, Riverside, Wellesley College and New York University. He is the author of The Enlightenment Qur'an: The Politics of Translation and the Construction of Islam (Oneworld, 2009), and co-editor, with Anna Bernard and David Attwell, of Debating Orientalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ouverture
Chapter One: Naguib Mahfouz: (En)chanting Justice
Chapter Two: Tayeb Salih: The Returns of the Saint
Chapter Three: Al-Mas¿adi: Witnessing Immortality
Chapter Four: The Survival of Gamal Al-Ghitany
Chapter Five: Ibrahim Al-Koni: Writing and Sacrifice
Chapter Six: Tahar Ouettar: The Saint and the Nightmare of History
Epilogue: Bahaa Taher, Solidarity and Idealism
Bibliography