Islamic fundamentalism and the intellectuals: The case of Naguib Mahfouz

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 139-168

  Najjar, Fauzi M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 11544312186     PISSN: 13530194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13530199808705658     Document Type: Article

References (103)

1. al-Ahrām, 11 November 1994.
2. Ibid.
3. al-Ahrām, 28 October 1994.
4. al-Ahālī, Special Issue 17 October 1994.
5. al-Ahālī, No. 681 26 October 1994
6. Al-Ahrām, 1 November 1994
7. Reference is to Muhammad al-Ghazali's testimony before the High Court of State Security on 22 June 1993, in the murder trial of the Islamic extremists accused of Foda's assassination. See F. Najjar 'The Debate on Islam and secularism in Egypt,' Arab Studies Quarterly, 18:2 (Spring 1996), pp. 4-6.
8. Najīb Mahfūz, l'tirāfāt (Cairo: Dār al-Shabāb al-'Arabī, 1993), Preface by M. Fawzi, p. 13.
9. Fu'ād Dawwara, Najīb Mahfūz: Min al-Qawmiyya ilā al-'Alāmiyya (Cairo: al-Hay'a al-Misriyya al-'Āmma li al-Kitāb, 1989), pp. 298-313; al-Ahrām, 10 September 1996.
10. Fu'ād Dawwara, Najīb Mahfūz: Min al-Qawmiyya ilā al-'Alāmiyya (Cairo: al-Hay'a al-Misriyya al-'Āmma li al-Kitāb, 1989), pp. 298-313; al-Ahrām, 10 September 1996.
11. Dawwāra, Najīb Mahfūz, p. 30.
12. al-Sayyid Ahmad Faraj, Adab Najib Mahfūz wa Ishkāliyyat al-Sirā' bayna al-Islām Wa al-Taghrīb (Mansoura: Dar al-Wafā', 1990), pp. 29-41.
13. Najīb Mahfūz, Hawla al-Dīn wa al-Dīmuqratiyya (Cairo: al-Dār al-Misriyya al-Lubnāniyya, 1990), p. 27.
14. Najīb Mahfuz, Atahaddath Ilaykum (Beirut: Dār al-'Awda, 1977), p. 16.
15. Ibid. p. 17.
16. Abd al-Muhsin Taha Badr, Najīb Mahfūz: al-Ru'Ya wa al-Adāt (Cairo: Dār al-Thaqāfa, 1978), p. 74.
17. Faraj, Adab Najīb Mahfūz, pp. 53, 268-269, 283 and 289.
18. Ibid., pp. 303 and 306.
19. Ibid., p. 166.
20. Ahmad Muhammad Atiyah, Ma'a Najib Mahfūz (Damascus: 1971), p. 25.
21. Quoted in Trevor LeGassick (ed.), Critical Perspectives on Naguib Mahfouz (Washington: Three Continents Press, 1991), p. 86.
22. Mahfūz, Atahaddath Ilaykum, p. 103; Mahmud Fawzi, Najīb Mahfūz: Za'īm al-Harāfish (Beirut: Dār al-Jī, 1989), pp. 144-145.
23. Mahfūz, Atahaddath Ilaykum, p. 103; Mahmud Fawzi, Najīb Mahfūz: Za'īm al-Harāfish (Beirut: Dār al-Jī, 1989), pp. 144-145.
24. Mahfūz, I'tirāfāt, pp. 130-131.
25. Mahfūz, Atahaddath Ilaykum, pp. 100-101, 169.
26. Mahfūz, I'tirāfāt, pp. 88-89.
27. Reference is to the Arabic text of Awlād Hāratina, in N. Mahfūz, al-māl al-Kāmila (Beirut: al-Maktaba al-'Ilmiyya al-Jadīda, 1982), p. 326, henceforth AH; Abd al Hamid Kishk, Kalimatuna fi al-Radd 'alā Awlād Hāratina (Cairo: al-Mukhtār al-Islāmī, 1990), p. 156.
28. Reference is to the Arabic text of Awlād Hāratina, in N. Mahfūz, al-māl al-Kāmila (Beirut: al-Maktaba al-'Ilmiyya al-Jadīda, 1982), p. 326, henceforth AH; Abd al Hamid Kishk, Kalimatuna fi al-Radd 'alā Awlād Hāratina (Cairo: al-Mukhtār al-Islāmī, 1990), p. 156.
29. Ibid., p. 231.
30. Ibid. pp. 251, 259 and 262. Cf. AH 333.
31. Naguib Mahfouz, The Children of Gebelawi, Translated by Philip Stewart. London: Heinemann, 1981), pp. 6-7. Reference to the relevant page number of the translation will henceforth be indicated by a slash following the Arabic reference. Cf. Qur'ān, 2:30, 2:13, 7:11-12.
32. Naguib Mahfouz, The Children of Gebelawi, Translated by Philip Stewart. London: Heinemann, 1981), pp. 6-7. Reference to the relevant page number of the translation will henceforth be indicated by a slash following the Arabic reference. Cf. Qur'ān, 2:30, 2:13, 7:11-12.
33. Naguib Mahfouz, The Children of Gebelawi, Translated by Philip Stewart. London: Heinemann, 1981), pp. 6-7. Reference to the relevant page number of the translation will henceforth be indicated by a slash following the Arabic reference. Cf. Qur'ān, 2:30, 2:13, 7:11-12.
34. Naguib Mahfouz, The Children of Gebelawi, Translated by Philip Stewart. London: Heinemann, 1981), pp. 6-7. Reference to the relevant page number of the translation will henceforth be indicated by a slash following the Arabic reference. Cf. Qur'ān, 2:30, 2:13, 7:11-12.
35. Kishk, Kalimantuna, p. 225. Cf. Qur'ān, 5:30-34.
36. Kishk, Kalimantuna, p. 225. Cf. Qur'ān, 5:30-34.
37. Kishk, Kalimatuna, pp. 100-102.
38. Ibid., pp. 256, Cf. Qur'ān on Moses, in particular 7.144.
39. Ibid., pp. 256, Cf. Qur'ān on Moses, in particular 7.144.
40. Kishk, Kalimatuna, pp. 235-236 and 273-274.
41. Ibid., p. 237. Cf. Qur'ān 3:55.
42. Ibid., p. 237. Cf. Qur'ān 3:55.
43. Kishk, Kalimatuna, p. 287.
44. Ibid., pp. 242-243, 247, 283 and 295.
45. Mahfouz, Mirrors. Translated by Roger Allen (Minneapolis: Biblioteca Islamica, 1977), p. 36.
46. Trevor LeGassick, 'Mahfouz's al-Karnak: The Quiet Conscience of Nassir's Egypt Revealed,' in Critical Perspectives ..., p. 160.
47. Kishk, Kalimatuna, pp. 9-13, 34-35 and 37.
48. Ibid., pp. 339-341.
49. Ibid., pp. 343-345. Cf. (A.H. 777/344-355).
50. Kishk, Kalimatuna, pp. 38-39.
51. Ibid. pp. 74-77 and 110.
52. Faraj, Adab Najīb Mahfūz, pp. 77-85.
53. Ibid., p. 55.
54. Ibid., pp. 139-158.
55. Ibid., pp. 179-180.
56. Ibid., p. 186.
57. Ibid., pp. 223, 226 and 232.
58. Quoted in al-Ahālī, No. 684, 16 November 1994. Cf. Qur'ān 12:21.
59. Quoted in al-Ahālī, No. 684, 16 November 1994. Cf. Qur'ān 12:21.
60. Dawwāra, Najīb Mahfūz, pp. 36-37.
61. Ibid., p. 37. In a stretched argument, Muhammad Jalal Kishk argues that insofar as Mahfouz's novel has something to do with religions and the story of creation, it presents Gabalwi as a personification of God as described in the Old Testament. M. J. Kishk, Awlād Hāratina fihā Qawlān (Cairo: al-Zahrā' li-'lām al-'Arabī, 1989), pp. 47-53.
62. Ibid., p. 37. In a stretched argument, Muhammad Jalal Kishk argues that insofar as Mahfouz's novel has something to do with religions and the story of creation, it presents Gabalwi as a personification of God as described in the Old Testament. M. J. Kishk, Awlād Hāratina fihā Qawlān (Cairo: al-Zahrā' li-'lām al-'Arabī, 1989), pp. 47-53.
63. Ahmad'Abd al-Mu'tī Hijāzī, 'al-Adab Laysa bi Mawdū'ihi' (Literature is not [to be judged] by its Subject Matter), al-Ahrām, 23 November 1994.
64. Ibid.
65. Ahmad 'Abd al-Mu'tī Hijāzī, 'Awlad Haratinā bayna 'Ālam al-Mu'allif wa Wahy al-Wāqi' (Awlad Haratina between the Author's World and Actual Reality), al-Ahrām, 30 November 1994.
66. Ibid.
67. Ghali Shukri, Najib Mahfūz: min al-Jummāliyya ilā Nubil: Muwājaha Naqdiyya (Beirut: al-Farābī, 1991), p. 19.
68. Fawzi, Najib Mahfūz Za'im al-Harāfish, p. 43.
69. Ibid., pp. 42-44.
70. Sāmī Khashaba, 'Awlad Hāratinā lil-Īmān, lil-Insāniyya, wa Ii Misr,' al-Ahrām, 11 November 1994.
71. Cited in Fawzi, Najīb Mahfūz Za'īm al-Harāfish, pp. 42-43.
72. Dawwāra, Najīb Mahfūi, p. 106.
73. al-Ahālī, No. 681, 26 October 1994.
74. Mahfūz, I'tirāfāt, p. 95.
75. Mahfūz, Atahaddath Ilaykum, p. 71.
76. Quoted in Wā'il 'Azīz, al-Haqīqa al-Ghā'iba wara'a Fawz Najīb Mahfūz bi al-Jā'iza (Cairo: Dār al-Haqīqa li al-l'lām al-Duwalī, 1989), p. 118.
77. Ghālī Shukrī, 'Yawm al-Huzn al-Kabīr,' al-Ahrām, 19 October 1994.
78. 'Alī Shalash, Najīb Mahfūz al-Tarīq wa al-Sadā (Beirut: Dār al-Ādāb, 1990), pp. 71 and 76.
79. Mahfūz, Atahaddath Ilaykum, p. 75.
80. Mahfūz, Mirāmār. Translated by Fatma Mousa Mahmoud (Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1991), Postface, p. 152.
81. Mona Abousenna, 'Najīb Mahfūz Tārikhiyyan,' al-Ahālī, No. 687, 7 December 1994.
82. Quoted in Michael Beard and Adnan Haydar (eds), Naguib Mahfouz: from Regional Fame to Global Recognition (New York: Syracuse University Press, 1993), pp. 79-80.
83. Mahfūz, Atahaddath Ilaykum, p. 208.
84. Mahfūz, Hawla al-Dīn wa al-Dīmūqrātiyya, pp. 13, 23-24 and 215.
85. Mahfūz, I'tirāfāt, pp. 96-97.
86. Mahfūz, al-Qāhira al-Jadīda (Cairo: Maktabat Misr, 1946), p. 23.
87. Ibid., p. 9.
88. Mahfūz, Mirrors, 222-223.
89. Arabic text in 'Aziz, al-Haqīqa Al-Ghā'iba, pp. 157-167.
90. al-Ahrām, 10 April 1997.
91. Mahfūz, The Journey of Ibn Fattuma (Rihlat Ibn Fattūma). Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 1992), pp. 70-71.
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93. Mahfūz, Mirāmār, p. 8.
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96. Mona Mikhail, Studies in the Short Fiction of Mahfouz and Idris (New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilization, No. XVI) (New York: New York University Press, 1992), p. 85.
97. Quoted in Badr, Najlb Mahfūz, p. 34.
98. See al-Ahrām, 22 December 1996.
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100. Shukri, Min al-Jummāliyya ilā Nubil, p. 75.
101. Ibid., p. 158.
102. Ghālī Shukrī, 'Min Tārīkh Hurriyat al-Fikr wa al-Ta'bīr al-Misrī,' al-Ahrām, 12 July 1995.
103. Mahfūz, Rihlat Ibn Fattūma, pp. 70, 95 and 98.