04312nam 22006135 450 991080795020332120210715025609.00-8232-8638-X10.1515/9780823286386(CKB)4100000009938675(DE-B1597)555107(DE-B1597)9780823286386(MiAaPQ)EBC5987162(OCoLC)1178769947(EXLCZ)99410000000993867520200723h20192019 fg 0engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Literary Qur'an Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb /Hoda El ShakryNew York, NY :Fordham University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (240 p.) 1Front matter --Contents --Note on Translations and Transliterations --Acknowledgments --Preface: The Ethics of Reading --Introduction. The Quʾran as (Inter)text: Embodiment, Praxis, Critique --1. Existential Poiesis in Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī’s Mawlid al-nisyān --2. Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Talismano --3. Apocalyptic Aftershocks in al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār’s Al-zilzāl --4. The Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar’s L’amour, la fantasia --5. Tense Eruptions in Driss Chraïbi’s Le passé simple --6. Threads of Transmission in Muḥammad Barrāda’s Luʿbat al-nisyān --Epilogue: Poetics, Politics, Piety --Glossary --Notes --Bibliography --Index --About the AuthorThe 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 literary criticism. Showing how the Qurʾan itself invites and enacts critical reading, Hoda El Shakry’s Qurʾanic model of narratology enriches our understanding of literary sensibilities and practices in the Maghreb across Arabophone and Francophone traditions. The Literary Qurʾan mobilizes the Qurʾan’s formal, narrative, and rhetorical qualities, alongside embodied and hermeneutical forms of Qurʾanic pedagogy, to theorize modern Maghrebi literature. Challenging the canonization of secular modes of reading that occlude religious epistemes, practices, and intertexts, it attends to literature as a site where the process of entextualization obscures ethical imperatives. Engaging with the Arab-Islamic tradition of adab—a concept demarcating the genre of belles lettres, as well as social and moral comportment—El Shakry demonstrates how the critical pursuit of knowledge is inseparable from the spiritual cultivation of the self. Foregrounding form and praxis alike, The Literary Qurʾan stages a series of pairings that invite paratactic readings across texts, languages, and literary canons. The book places twentieth-century novels by canonical Francophone writers (Abdelwahab Meddeb, Assia Djebar, Driss Chraïbi) into conversation with lesser-known Arabophone ones (Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī, al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār, Muḥammad Barrāda). Theorizing the Qurʾan as a literary object, process, and model, this interdisciplinary study blends literary and theological methodologies, conceptual vocabularies, and reading practices.Arabic literatureAfrica, NorthHistory and criticismNorth African literature (French)History and criticismQurʼan as literatureAlgeria.Arabic Literature.Ethics.Francophone Literature.Islam.Maghreb.Morocco.Narrative.North Africa.Novel.Qurʾan [Quran/Koran].Secularism.Tunisia.Arabic literatureHistory and criticism.North African literature (French)History and criticism.Qurʼan as literature.809.8961El Shakry Hodaauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1663283DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910807950203321The Literary Qur'an4020479UNINA