Winner, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative
Literary Studies, Modern Language Association 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 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 Chraibi) into conversation
with lesser-known Arabophone ones (Mahmud al-Mas'adi, al-Tahir
Wattar, Muhammad Barrada). Theorizing the Qur'an as a literary
object, process, and model, this interdisciplinary study blends
literary and theological methodologies, conceptual vocabularies,
and reading practices.
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