Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islam in Literary Production -- Roads Not Taken : Arab Modernity and the Loose Ties with the Street -- Before Bidding Farewell: What Do Narratives of Education Say? -- Duktur Ibrahim -- Yahya Haqqis Qindil Umm Hashim -- Writing Ibn Taymiyyah : Sharqawis Difficult Choice in Literary Biography -- The Religious Dynamic -- Recruitments in a Political Vacuum: Mahfuz's Layali Alf Laylah : Arabian Nights and Days -- 'Ala al-Aswani : 'Imarat Ya'qubian (The Yacoubian Building) -- Mass Culture Narratives -- `Abd al-Hakim Qasim : The Seven Days of Man -- The Politics/Poetics of Contemporary Islamic Popular Narrative : The Case of Najib Mahfuz's The Epic of the Harafish -- In the Aftermath of Failures : The Reliance on Popular Religious Politics -- The Global, the National, and Islamic Faith in Jamal al-Ghitani's Zaynl Barakdt -- `Abd al-Hakim Qasim's Al-Mahdi -- Which Door to an Enclave? Najib Mahfuz's al-Liss wa al-Kildb : The Thief and the Dogs -- The Search for Islam -- Tawfiq al-Hakims Bird of the East and the Door to Faith -- The Shrine of Atia : A Novella by Salwa Bakr -- Najib Mahfuz, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma -- The Bifurcated Poetic : Islam as Poetry -- What Might or Might Not Come.

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