Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning (Arabic Thought and Culture)

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Literature & Fiction

El-Enany, Rasheed

History & Criticism

Routledge

Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East)

This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research El-Enany examines the attitudes as expressed mainly through works of fiction written by Arab authors during the twentieth, and, to a lesser extent, nineteenth century. It constitutes an original addition to the age-old East-West debate, and is particularly relevant to the current discussion on Islam and the West. Alongside raising highly topical questions about stereotypical ideas concerning Arabs and Muslims in general, the book explores representations of the West by the foremost Arab intellectuals over a two-century period, up to the present day, and will appeal to those with an interest in Islam, the Middle East, nationalism and the so-called ‘Clash of Civilizations’.

Reference

Arab Representations of the Occident (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East)

Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters in Arabic Fiction

Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

<p>Naguib Mahfouz (1911 –2006) is the only Arab writer to have been awarded the Nobel prize for literature. The author of thirty-five novels, fifteen collections of short stories, twenty-five film screenplays, numerous critical works, and in his later years over five hundred short fictions based on his dreams (partly published as The Dreams and Dreams of Departure by the AUC Press in 2004 and 2007), he has been hugely influential on several generations of Arab writers, and his books are now read in more than forty languages around the world. In its citation for the Nobel prize, the Swedish Academy of Letters noted that Mahfouz “through works rich in nuance―now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous―has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind.” And he has been described by Nadine Gordimer as “one of the greatest creative talents in the realm of the novel in the world,” by Ahdaf Soueif as a “massively important influence on Arabic literature,” and by Alaa Al Aswany as “the founder of the new Arab novel . . . . our father.” <br>In this first biography of Naguib Mahfouz in English, Rasheed El-Enany looks at the life of the man and the work of the writer, and assesses the oeuvre and legacy of a towering figure in the Egyptian and Arab literary world who was able to reach far beyond his own linguistic and cultural boundaries to an admiring readership across the globe.</p>

Naguib Mahfouz: His Life and Times

The American University in Cairo Press

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