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 Qur?an invites critical reading, this account of Arabophone and Francophone Maghrebi literature develops a Qur?anic model of narratology.

• | Author: Hoda El Shakry
• | Publisher: Fordham University Press
• | Publication Date: December 03, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0823286355
• | ISBN-13: 9780823286355