Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

This series, dedicated to the study of modern Arabic literature, is unique and unprecedented. it publishes contemporary, scholarly accounts of developments in the field in the past few decades, and will include modern genre studies; titles devoted to the works of both established and new and emerging writers, and to specific contemporary movements, trends, groupings, themes and periods in modern Arabic literature; and studies arranged by geographical regions. Books in the series are written by specialists for those who knovv little or nothing about the subject.

Reviews of Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel

Elmarsafy brings together an illustrative spectrum of seminal Arab authors, and ably illuminates the persistence of Sufi idioms and voices in contemporary literary texts. He argues convincingly that these appropriations are intricately linked not only to questions of besieged national identities and ideological bankruptcy, but perhaps more pressingly to aspects of the journey of the self, the limits of the language and form of the novel, and ultimately, the very habitability of the world of the writer.–Samia Mehrez, Professor of Arabic Literature, American University in Cairo