| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Contents |
BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. THE COLONIAL PREDICAMENT AND THE BURDEN OF REPRESENTATION; 2. THE ALLURE OF TURATH; 3. THE APPEAL OF THE SUBLIME: TRAGEDY AND THE QURAN; 4. THE CALL OF THE BEYOND: SUFISM AS POETICS AND WORLDVIEW; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX 1: 'THE BUILDING IS CRACKING' (1951); APPENDIX 2: 'HADITH AL-TIN' (THE CLAY), HADDATHA ABU HURAYRA QAL ... ; APPENDIX 3: AL-SUDD (THE DAM), 'SCENE FOUR'; NOTES; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MAHMUD AL-MAS'ADI; WORKS CITED; INDEX |
| Summary |
The writer and politician Mahmud al-Mis'adi is a figure of prime importance in the development of North African literature and cultural politics. This book covers both his essays and fiction, written between the 1930s and 1990s, and also examines Arabic literature and its relationship to the West |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780203965283 |
|
0203965280 |
|
