Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

by Ziad Elmarsafy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748641408
• ISBN13: 9780748641406
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher