La dévotion des femmes à l'égard du Prophète d'après la construction littéraire d'un récit non ca... more La dévotion des femmes à l'égard du Prophète d'après la construction littéraire d'un récit non canonique du Mawlid : le Kitāb al-anwār d'Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī
The World Represented in Contemporary Arabic Literature, 2024
In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, the Egyptian author Ǧamāl al-Ġīṭānī expressed his anx... more In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, the Egyptian author Ǧamāl al-Ġīṭānī expressed his anxieties for the failures of Arab politics in the novel Hātif al-maġīb (The Call of the Sunset, 1991). In this travelogue, based on the rewriting of pre-modern genres related to creative imagination, the author's alter ego embarks on a visionary and full-of-wonders journey from Egypt to the sunset, which is, symbolically, Morocco and a metaphor for death. In this contribution, we will investigate the construction of the fantastic in the novel, in order to underscore the multiple meanings of the sunset motif, mainly inspired by the mythology of ancient Egypt. Our reading of the fantastic components will be informed by studies carried out by the Moroccan literary critic Šuʻayb Ḥalīfī in the field. It will turn out that the fantastic re-combines the real, being a means to interpret human experience and the author's inner concern with time and death.
In a large part of his literary production, the Egyptian novelist Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī (1945-2015) ai... more In a large part of his literary production, the Egyptian novelist Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī (1945-2015) aimed at rewriting the Arabic literary heritage in order to contest the Western novel hegemony and criticising Gamal Abdel Nasser (Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir) and Anwar Sadat's (Anwar al-Sādāt) authoritarianism. In this study we will analyse his novel Khiṭaṭ al-Ghīṭānī (1981), in which the author narrates the police state and the free market economy applying the spatial organization of the Arab-Islamic genre of topographical history (khiṭaṭ). The novel is built around the theme of journalism as one of the most powerful means of a totalitarian regime. We will focus upon some relevant features of this work, such as the relation with its premodern architext, the postmodern dimension, the construction of spatial politics in the novel, the dystopian lens through which the author criticises Sadat's policies, the revolutionary role of Sufism and art. All of these strategies are instrumental to the representation of the oppressive power and also present a challenge to it. Through this novel the author deconstructs the dominant view of history as objective and factual.
Quaderni di Studi Arabi 17 (2022) 61-80 brill.com/qsa QSA Religione e regionalismo nell'Egitto ot... more Quaderni di Studi Arabi 17 (2022) 61-80 brill.com/qsa QSA Religione e regionalismo nell'Egitto ottomano attraverso una ricognizione dei generi e dei temi della letteratura religiosa
Al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī is a hero of the Islamic history who stands against the oppressor for the sake ... more Al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī is a hero of the Islamic history who stands against the oppressor for the sake of justice. His tragic death has been a major theme in Shiʿi literature, but he is highly esteemed also in Sunni Islam, especially in Egypt. This paper aims to present the other-less known-al-Ḥusayn through the literary representations made by Egyptian writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, who have read this transhistorical figure according to the political and social environment that they lived in. The martyr has become eternal symbol of resistance and struggle and a narrative lens to talk freely about the political events that upset Republican Egypt.
Attiva da oltre quarant'anni con periodicità annuale, la rivista è espressione del Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Dal respiro internazionale, essa ospitacontributi di orientalistica di qualificati studiosi italiani e stranieri. I temi della ricerca, spesso trasversali alle diverse aree geografiche e culturali, si possono raggruppare in quattro ambiti principali: 1. Studi linguistici, filologici e letterari; 2. Religioni e filosofie; 3. Archeologia e conservazione dei beni culturali, arti figurative e performative; 4. Storia, istituzioni, economia, società, politica e relazioni internazionali.Da sempre attenta agli sviluppi delle discipline orientalistiche e al loro futuro, la rivista ospita altresì i lavori di giovani studiosi quali dottorandi e dottori di ricerca. La pubblicazione di supplementi monografici è volta all'ulteriore approfondimento dei molteplici campi d'indagine.
La dévotion des femmes à l'égard du Prophète d'après la construction littéraire d'un récit non ca... more La dévotion des femmes à l'égard du Prophète d'après la construction littéraire d'un récit non canonique du Mawlid : le Kitāb al-anwār d'Abū al-Ḥasan al-Bakrī
The World Represented in Contemporary Arabic Literature, 2024
In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, the Egyptian author Ǧamāl al-Ġīṭānī expressed his anx... more In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, the Egyptian author Ǧamāl al-Ġīṭānī expressed his anxieties for the failures of Arab politics in the novel Hātif al-maġīb (The Call of the Sunset, 1991). In this travelogue, based on the rewriting of pre-modern genres related to creative imagination, the author's alter ego embarks on a visionary and full-of-wonders journey from Egypt to the sunset, which is, symbolically, Morocco and a metaphor for death. In this contribution, we will investigate the construction of the fantastic in the novel, in order to underscore the multiple meanings of the sunset motif, mainly inspired by the mythology of ancient Egypt. Our reading of the fantastic components will be informed by studies carried out by the Moroccan literary critic Šuʻayb Ḥalīfī in the field. It will turn out that the fantastic re-combines the real, being a means to interpret human experience and the author's inner concern with time and death.
In a large part of his literary production, the Egyptian novelist Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī (1945-2015) ai... more In a large part of his literary production, the Egyptian novelist Jamāl al-Ghīṭānī (1945-2015) aimed at rewriting the Arabic literary heritage in order to contest the Western novel hegemony and criticising Gamal Abdel Nasser (Jamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣir) and Anwar Sadat's (Anwar al-Sādāt) authoritarianism. In this study we will analyse his novel Khiṭaṭ al-Ghīṭānī (1981), in which the author narrates the police state and the free market economy applying the spatial organization of the Arab-Islamic genre of topographical history (khiṭaṭ). The novel is built around the theme of journalism as one of the most powerful means of a totalitarian regime. We will focus upon some relevant features of this work, such as the relation with its premodern architext, the postmodern dimension, the construction of spatial politics in the novel, the dystopian lens through which the author criticises Sadat's policies, the revolutionary role of Sufism and art. All of these strategies are instrumental to the representation of the oppressive power and also present a challenge to it. Through this novel the author deconstructs the dominant view of history as objective and factual.
Quaderni di Studi Arabi 17 (2022) 61-80 brill.com/qsa QSA Religione e regionalismo nell'Egitto ot... more Quaderni di Studi Arabi 17 (2022) 61-80 brill.com/qsa QSA Religione e regionalismo nell'Egitto ottomano attraverso una ricognizione dei generi e dei temi della letteratura religiosa
Al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī is a hero of the Islamic history who stands against the oppressor for the sake ... more Al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī is a hero of the Islamic history who stands against the oppressor for the sake of justice. His tragic death has been a major theme in Shiʿi literature, but he is highly esteemed also in Sunni Islam, especially in Egypt. This paper aims to present the other-less known-al-Ḥusayn through the literary representations made by Egyptian writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, who have read this transhistorical figure according to the political and social environment that they lived in. The martyr has become eternal symbol of resistance and struggle and a narrative lens to talk freely about the political events that upset Republican Egypt.
Attiva da oltre quarant'anni con periodicità annuale, la rivista è espressione del Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Dal respiro internazionale, essa ospitacontributi di orientalistica di qualificati studiosi italiani e stranieri. I temi della ricerca, spesso trasversali alle diverse aree geografiche e culturali, si possono raggruppare in quattro ambiti principali: 1. Studi linguistici, filologici e letterari; 2. Religioni e filosofie; 3. Archeologia e conservazione dei beni culturali, arti figurative e performative; 4. Storia, istituzioni, economia, società, politica e relazioni internazionali.Da sempre attenta agli sviluppi delle discipline orientalistiche e al loro futuro, la rivista ospita altresì i lavori di giovani studiosi quali dottorandi e dottori di ricerca. La pubblicazione di supplementi monografici è volta all'ulteriore approfondimento dei molteplici campi d'indagine.
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Attiva da oltre quarant'anni con periodicità annuale, la rivista è espressione del Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Dal respiro internazionale, essa ospitacontributi di orientalistica di qualificati studiosi italiani e stranieri. I temi della ricerca, spesso trasversali alle diverse aree geografiche e culturali, si possono raggruppare in quattro ambiti principali: 1. Studi linguistici, filologici e letterari; 2. Religioni e filosofie; 3. Archeologia e conservazione dei beni culturali, arti figurative e performative; 4. Storia, istituzioni, economia, società, politica e relazioni internazionali.Da sempre attenta agli sviluppi delle discipline orientalistiche e al loro futuro, la rivista ospita altresì i lavori di giovani studiosi quali dottorandi e dottori di ricerca. La pubblicazione di supplementi monografici è volta all'ulteriore approfondimento dei molteplici campi d'indagine.
Attiva da oltre quarant'anni con periodicità annuale, la rivista è espressione del Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Dal respiro internazionale, essa ospitacontributi di orientalistica di qualificati studiosi italiani e stranieri. I temi della ricerca, spesso trasversali alle diverse aree geografiche e culturali, si possono raggruppare in quattro ambiti principali: 1. Studi linguistici, filologici e letterari; 2. Religioni e filosofie; 3. Archeologia e conservazione dei beni culturali, arti figurative e performative; 4. Storia, istituzioni, economia, società, politica e relazioni internazionali.Da sempre attenta agli sviluppi delle discipline orientalistiche e al loro futuro, la rivista ospita altresì i lavori di giovani studiosi quali dottorandi e dottori di ricerca. La pubblicazione di supplementi monografici è volta all'ulteriore approfondimento dei molteplici campi d'indagine.