The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb

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 Qurʾan invites critical reading, this account of Arabophone and Francophone Maghrebi literature develops a Qurʾanic model of narratology.

Author: Hoda El Shakry
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780823286355

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