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The Literary Qur''an
ISBN: 9780823286386
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Qur╩╝an as literature.; North African literature (French); Arabic literature;

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 criticism. Showing how the Qurʾan invites critical reading, this account of Arabophone and Francophone Maghrebi literature develops a Qurʾanic model of narratology.

Hoda El Shakry is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Hoda El Shakry is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago.