LEADER 04312nam 22006135 450 001 9910793814203321 005 20210715025609.0 010 $a0-8232-8638-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823286386 035 $a(CKB)4100000009938675 035 $a(DE-B1597)555107 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823286386 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5987162 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769947 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009938675 100 $a20200723h20192019 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Literary Qur'an $eNarrative Ethics in the Maghreb /$fHoda El Shakry 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$d©2019 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) $c1 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tNote on Translations and Transliterations --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface: The Ethics of Reading --$tIntroduction. The Qu?ran as (Inter)text: Embodiment, Praxis, Critique --$t1. Existential Poiesis in Ma?m?d al-Mas?ad??s Mawlid al-nisy?n --$t2. Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb?s Talismano --$t3. Apocalyptic Aftershocks in al-??hir Wa???r?s Al-zilz?l --$t4. The Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar?s L?amour, la fantasia --$t5. Tense Eruptions in Driss Chraïbi?s Le passé simple --$t6. Threads of Transmission in Mu?ammad Barr?da?s Lu?bat al-nisy?n --$tEpilogue: Poetics, Politics, Piety --$tGlossary --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThe 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 Qur?an itself invites and enacts critical reading, Hoda El Shakry?s Qur?anic model of narratology enriches our understanding of literary sensibilities and practices in the Maghreb across Arabophone and Francophone traditions. The Literary Qur?an mobilizes the Qur?an?s formal, narrative, and rhetorical qualities, alongside embodied and hermeneutical forms of Qur?anic 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 Qur?an 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 (Ma?m?d al-Mas?ad?, al-??hir Wa???r, Mu?ammad Barr?da). Theorizing the Qur?an as a literary object, process, and model, this interdisciplinary study blends literary and theological methodologies, conceptual vocabularies, and reading practices. 606 $aArabic literature$zAfrica, North$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNorth African literature (French)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aQur?an as literature 610 $aAlgeria. 610 $aArabic Literature. 610 $aEthics. 610 $aFrancophone Literature. 610 $aIslam. 610 $aMaghreb. 610 $aMorocco. 610 $aNarrative. 610 $aNorth Africa. 610 $aNovel. 610 $aQur?an [Quran/Koran]. 610 $aSecularism. 610 $aTunisia. 615 0$aArabic literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNorth African literature (French)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aQur?an as literature. 676 $a809.8961 700 $aEl Shakry$b Hoda$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01524682 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793814203321 996 $aThe Literary Qur'an$93765685 997 $aUNINA