{"product_id":"the-literary-quran-narrative-ethics-in-the-maghreb-9780823286355","title":"The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForegrounding 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hoda El Shakry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823286355","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710671818889,"sku":"9780823286355","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_447081d6-adb1-44a5-afd5-6f2c76f049af.jpg?v=1719542036","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-literary-quran-narrative-ethics-in-the-maghreb-9780823286355","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}