{"product_id":"the-literary-quran-narrative-ethics-in-the-maghreb-hardback-9780823286362","title":"The Literary Qur'an; Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb (Hardback) 9780823286362","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Literary Qur'an\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNarrative Ethics in the Maghreb\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHoda El Shakry (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823286362\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 December 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 1\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.538 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Qurʾan \u003c\/i\u003emobilizes 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 \u003ci\u003eadab\u003c\/i\u003e—a concept demarcating the genre of \u003ci\u003ebelles lettres\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e Foregrounding form and praxis alike,\u003ci\u003e The Literary Qurʾan\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote on Translations and Transliterations \u003c\/i\u003e  ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   xi\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e: The Ethics of Reading   xv\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e. The Quʾran as (Inter)text: Embodiment, Praxis, Critique   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Poetics of Piety\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eExistential Poiesis in Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī's Mawlid al-nisyān   37\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb's Talismano   58\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Ethics of Embodiment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Apocalyptic Aftershocks in al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār's Al-zilzāl   83\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e The Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia   100\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Genealogies of Transmission\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Tense Eruptions in Driss Chraïbi's Le passé simple   119\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Threads of Transmission in Muḥammad Barrāda's Luʿbat al-nisyān   141\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: Poetics, Politics, Piety   159\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGlossary\u003c\/i\u003e   167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   171\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   213\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   231\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580355932440,"sku":"9780823286362","price":79.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-literary-quran-narrative-ethics-in-the-maghreb-hardback-9780823286362","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}