Pub Date : 2019-12-03DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823286362.003.0001
Hoda El Shakry
The introduction outlines the history of the Maghreb as it pertains to the ideological and methodological biases of Maghrebi Studies, particularly around the bifurcation of Francophone and Arabophone literatures. Arguing for the multilingual accenting of Maghrebi literature both within and across languages, it connects the lack of critical attention to Qurʾanic intertextuality to the privileging of Francophone literatures. The introduction further parses out the ways in which the term secular is often deeply inflected with its own orthodoxies, as well as how the secularization narrative has impacted the study of literary practices and forms—particularly the genre of the novel. It proposes that the classical Arab-Islamic concept of adab provides a valuable corrective, by offering a more expansive model of literature. Bringing in scholarship on the anthropology of Islam, Islamic philosophy, and Qurʾanic studies, the chapter interrogates the ethical, literary, and hermeneutical dimensions of Qurʾanic and Sufi aesthetics. Theorizing the Qurʾan as a literary object, process, and model, introduces ethical ways of approaching questions of writing, reading, and literary hermeneutics. Finally, the introduction explicates the book’s organizational logic of placing canonical Francophone novels into conversation with lesser-known Arabophone ones.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-03DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823286362.003.0002
Hoda El Shakry
Chapter 1 examines Tunisian intellectual Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī’s 1945 mythical novella Mawlid al-Nisyān [the Genesis of Forgetfulness] about a physician on a spiritual quest for a drug to defeat time. Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī (1911–2004) was a prolific writer, educator, editor, trade unionist, and government official. The novella integrates Sufi philosophy, existentialism, and humanism in its exploration of the relationship between the human and divine. The chapter frames these concerns within the novella’s Qurʾanic intertextuality and al-Masʿadī’s broader philosophical writings on Islam and literature. Across his critical and literary oeuvre, al-Masʿadī explores literature as a creative praxis that speaks to broader existential and humanist concerns. Crowned the founder of “Muslim Existentialism,” he theorizes Islam as a philosophy of existence intimately connected to the artistic process. The chapter reads his novella Mawlid al-Nisyān as a Sufi spiritual journey that explores creation as an ethical imperative of human existence.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-03DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823286362.003.0008
Hoda El Shakry
The Epilogue returns to novelist and critic Maḥmud Al-Masʿadī, to discuss his 1957 epistolary exchange with the Egyptian critic and writer Ṭāhā Ḥusayn—the figurehead par excellence of the nahḍa [Arab ‘Renaissance’] and Arab Modernist movement. Ḥusayn transposed al-Masʿadī’s fiction into the politically charged debates on literary commitment [engagement] and existentialism that preoccupied intellectuals across the decolonizing world. The exchange sheds light on the ways in which the elision of cultural production from the Maghreb in critical literature on the nahḍa works in concert with the framing of Arab modernity as a secular project. The chapter argues that al-Masʿadī’s literary and critical writings—like those of Abdelwahab Meddeb, al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār, Assia Djebar, Driss Chraïbi, and Muḥammad Barrāda—invite us to reimagine the relationship between culture, politics, and ethics. Their works envision the public intellectual as an ethical subject engaged in narrative acts of creation.
结语回到小说家和评论家Maḥmud Al-Mas - ad ā，讨论他1957年与埃及评论家和作家Ṭāhā Ḥusayn-the的书信交流，Ṭāhā Ḥusayn-the是nahḍa[阿拉伯“文艺复兴”]和阿拉伯现代主义运动的杰出人物。Ḥusayn将al-Mas - al- ad - al的小说转换成充满政治色彩的关于文学承诺[参与]和存在主义的辩论，这是整个非殖民化世界的知识分子所关注的。这种交流揭示了在nahḍa上批评文学中对马格里布文化生产的省略与阿拉伯现代性作为一个世俗项目的框架相一致的方式。本章认为，al- mas - al- adir的文学和批评作品，如Abdelwahab Meddeb, al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār, asia Djebar, Driss Chraïbi和Muḥammad Barrāda-invite的作品，让我们重新想象文化，政治和伦理之间的关系。他们的作品将公共知识分子设想为从事叙事创造行为的伦理主体。
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Chapter 5 analyzes Driss Chraïbi’s (1926–2007) controversial 1954 novel Le passé simple [the Simple Past], which traces the rebellion of nineteen-year-old Driss Ferdi against his seemingly pious wealthy father Haj Ferdi. Readings of the novel as an orientalist portrayal of Moroccan culture and a heretical attack on Islam resulted in a decades-long controversy known as l’affaire Chraïbi, as well as a government ban until 1977. The novel stages a double-critique against colonial and nationalist teleologies—a tension that emerges most explicitly in its engagement with the Qurʾan. The chapter investigates the novel’s critique of imbricated modes of genealogical historical inscription under Protectorate Morocco: French imperial discourses of civil society and the Moroccan monarchy’s, and Hajj Ferdi’s, filiation with the Prophet Muhammad. It argues that Chraïbi offers an alternative mode of ethical agency in the recurring image of la ligne mince [the thin line]: a hallucinatory apparition with Qurʾanic and Sufi valences that haunts the narrator throughout the novel.
第五章分析了Driss Chraïbi(1926-2007)在1954年创作的备受争议的小说《简单的过去》，小说描写了19岁的Driss Ferdi反抗他看似虔诚而富有的父亲Haj Ferdi的故事。人们认为这部小说是对摩洛哥文化的东方主义描绘，是对伊斯兰教的异端攻击，这导致了长达数十年的争议，被称为“l 'affaire Chraïbi”，政府也在1977年之前禁止了这部小说。这部小说对殖民主义和民族主义的目的论进行了双重批判，这种张力在与《古兰经》的接触中最为明显。这一章研究了小说对受保护国摩洛哥的家谱历史铭文的叠瓦式模式的批判:法国帝国对公民社会和摩洛哥君主制的论述，以及哈吉·费迪与先知穆罕默德的关系。它认为Chraïbi在反复出现的la ligne mince(细线)形象中提供了另一种伦理代理模式:一个带有古兰经和苏菲派价值的幻觉幽灵，在整部小说中萦绕着叙述者。
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Chapter 2 analyzes Tunisian writer and critic Abdelwahab Meddeb’s (1946–2014) wildly experimental 1979 novel Talismano. The labyrinthine text takes the reader on a hallucinatory journey through Tunisia’s topography—historical and contemporary, imagined and mythical—through a multitude of languages, temporalities, and religious discourses. The story presciently traces the evolution of a popular rebellion as it winds its way through the cityscape of Tunis’s medina bearing a retinue of prophets, artisans, sorceresses, alchemists, and prostitutes. The chapter examines Meddeb’s polemical attack on Bourguiba-era Tunisia, in which hegemonic power is simultaneously concentrated in state and religious institutions. Talismano subsequently demonstrates the co-constitutional nature of religious and state epistemologies, as well as their attendant institutions and discourses. The novel counteracts these forces in its rescripting of the Qurʾan, as well as its invocation of Sufi figures, texts, and rituals. The chapter contextualizes Talismano’s Sufi poetics within the Meddeb’s polemical critical writings against “orthodox” Sunni Islam.
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