Religion in the Egyptian Novel

by Christina Phillips

Book Overview

This is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early 20th century to present, Phillips provides a thematic exploration of the push and pull between religion and secularism as it played out on the pages of the Egyptian novel. Through close readings of representative texts, the book reveals the manifold ways in which Islam, Christianity, Sufism, myth, ritual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474483887
• ISBN13: 9781474483889
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"