The origins of modern Arabic fiction

Matti Moosa

first published 1983 Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997 455 pages

In this revised and greatly expanded second edition, Matti Moosa has added five entirely new chapters - one on the popular dialogues of Abd Allah Nadim, and four devoted to twentieth-century fiction, culminating with the novels of Naguib Mahfouz. He has also incorporated the results of more than two decades of fresh research. Moosa's exhaustive discussion, demonstrating the influence of both Western and Islamic ideo...

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The origins of modern Arabic fiction edition · 1997 · Lynne Rienner Publishers · 455 pages
The origins of modern Arabic fiction edition · 1983 · Three Continents Press · 250 pages

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