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The Early Novels of Naguib Mahfouz - Images of Modern Egypt (Hardcover, New)
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The Early Novels of Naguib Mahfouz - Images of Modern Egypt (Hardcover, New)
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Until he won the Nobel Prize for the literature in 1988, little was
known in the West about the life and literary accomplishments of
Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian and the first Arab to receive the
award. His writing, here examined by Matti Moosa in its original
Arabic, thereafter became widely available and widely scrutinized.
Moosa introduces Mahfouz and his principal works to a Western
audience by examining his treatment of social, political, and
religious themes against the background of twentieth-century Egypt.
Often compared to Dickens and Balzac, Mahfouz portrays the
condition of the poor and oppressed in a realistic and classically
Arabic style. Concentrating on the early novels, Moosa discusses
such themes as conflict between generations, the changing role of
women, and the humiliating inefficiency of bureaucracy. He
describes how Mahfouz, a moderate Muslim, explains Islamic
tradition and its place in a modern technological world. Moosa
begins with Mahfouz's formative years as an essayist and ends with
his Awlad Haratina (translated as Children of Gebelawi), which was
considered blasphemous by Islamic fundamentalists when it was
serialized in Cairo's daily newspaper in 1959. (It has never been
published in book form in Egypt.) He devotes nearly half of the
book to Mahfouz's Thulathiyya (Trilogy, completed in 1952), which
Mahfouz considers his best work. These novels in particular, Moosa
says, accurately convey Mahfouz's representation of both the
religious ideas of the zealous Muslim Brotherhood and the tolerant
ideas of many modern Muslims. At the same time they offer abundant
insight into the social and religious attitudes of Egyptians from
all walks of life and of Arab andIslamic culture and institutions.
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