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Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth A Novel

Naguib Mahfouz

In this beguiling novel, originally published in Arabic in 1985, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh," or "sun king,"--the first known monotheistic ruler--whose iconoclastic and controversial reign ...

Arabian Nights and Days

Naguib Mahfouz

Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs ...

Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Ziad Elmarsafy

In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Tahar 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 ...

Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Ziad Elmarsafy

In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Tahar 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 ...

From Damascus to Beirut: Contested Cities in Arab Writing ...

Hazem Fadel

Ouyang makes passing references to Khoury and Kanafani; nonetheless, both her studies have the work of Naguib Mahfouz at their centre.2 In Contemporary Arabic Fiction: Innovation from Rama to Yalu, Fabio Caiani anticipates a break ...