El Shakry The Literary Qur'an

Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8638-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

The novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the possibilities of novelistic form and literary exegesis exceed the secularizing tendencies of contemporary criticism. Showing how the Qur'an invites critical reading, this account of Arabophone and Francophone Maghrebi literature develops a Qur'anic model of narratology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

El Shakry, Hoda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Translations and Transliterations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Preface: The Ethics of Reading xv

Introduction. The Qu'ran as (Inter)text: Embodiment, Praxis, Critique 1

Part I: Poetics of Piety

1. Existential Poiesis in Mahmud al-Mas'adi’s Mawlid al-nisyan 37

2. Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Talismano 58

Part II: Ethics of Embodiment

3. Apocalyptic Aftershocks in al-Tahir Wattar’s Al-zilzal 83

4. The Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar’s L’amour, la fantasia 100

Part III: Genealogies of Transmission

5. Tense Eruptions in Driss Chraïbi’s Le passé simple 119

6. Threads of Transmission in Muhammad Barrada’s Lu'bat al-nisyan 141

Epilogue: Poetics, Politics, Piety 159

Glossary 167

Notes 171

Bibliography 213

Index 231

Über Autor(innen)

El Shakry Hoda:
Hoda El Shakry is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.Hoda El Shakry is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.