Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel EPUB
by Ziad Elmarsafy
Part of the Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature series
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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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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:20/08/2014
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- ISBN:9780748655663
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:20/08/2014
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- ISBN:9780748655663
