{"product_id":"sufism-in-the-contemporary-arabic-novel","title":"Sufism in the Contemporary Arabic Novel","description":"Sufi characters – saints, dervishes, wanderers – occur regularly in modern Arabic literature. A select group of novelists to interrogate Sufism as a system of thought and language. In the work of writers like Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Al-Ghitany, Taher Ouettar, Ibrahim Al-Koni, Mahmud Al-Mas’adi and Tayeb Salih we see a strong intertextual relationship with the Sufi masters of the past, including Al-Hallaj, Ibn Arabi, Al-Niffari and Al-Suhrawardi. This relationship becomes a means of interrogating the limits of the creative self, individuality, rationality and the manifold possibilities offered by literature, seeking in a dialogue with the mystical heritage a way of preserving a self under siege from the overwhelming forces of oppression and reaction that have characterised the late 20th and early 21st centuries.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54199549034840,"sku":null,"price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780748695850.jpg?v=1768042843","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/sufism-in-the-contemporary-arabic-novel","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}