Kesrouany , Maya I.

Prophetic translation : the making of modern Egyptian literature / Maya I. Kesrouany - Edinburgh: Edinburgh Universty Press, 2020 - xi, 250 pages ; 24 cm - Edinburgh studies in modern Arabic literature .

In this novel and pioneering study, Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur'anic to secular approaches to literature in early twentieth-century Egyptian literary translations, asking what we can learn from that period and the promise that translation held for the Egyptian writers of fiction at that time-

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Arabic fiction
Arabic fiction Egypt History and criticism
Arabic fiction Translations into English History and criticism

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