{"product_id":"sufism-in-the-contemporary-arabic-novel-9780748641406","title":"Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ziad Elmarsafy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSufi 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47598901067927,"sku":"9780748641406","price":14095.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780748641406.webp?v=1775002436","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sufism-in-the-contemporary-arabic-novel-9780748641406","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}