عنوان

The Reinscription of Ancient Egypt in Modern Arabic Literature: Aḥmad Shawqī's Shayṭān Bintāʾūr Aw Lubad Luqmān Wa-Hudhud Sulaymān (the Demon of Pentaur or the Eagle/Vulture of Luqmān and the Hoopoe of Solomon) (1901)

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TL51193

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Reinscription of Ancient Egypt in Modern Arabic Literature: Aḥmad Shawqī's Shayṭān Bintāʾūr Aw Lubad Luqmān Wa-Hudhud Sulaymān (the Demon of Pentaur or the Eagle/Vulture of Luqmān and the Hoopoe of Solomon) (1901)

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Mohamed, Aya

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Stetkevych, Suzanne P.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Indiana University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019

Text of Note

307 p.

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

Indiana University

Text preceding or following the note

2019

Text of Note

In this dissertation, I revisit the literary-cultural movement known as Pharaonism (al-Firʿawniyyah). Despite his thematic foregrounding of ancient Egypt, the foundational role of the great Neoclassical poet Aḥmad Shawqī (1869-1932) in Pharaonism is often sidestepped. Following the lead of Suzanne Stetkevych's structural reading of the Arabic qaṣīdah, I argue that this evasion is attributable to the underestimation of the ritual structure informing Shawqī's literary corpus. Paying special focus to the sui generis and highly cryptic work, Shayṭān Bintāʾūr aw Lubad Luqmān wa-Hudhud Sulaymān (1901), I demonstrate how it encompasses the climactic 'epiphany' through which the essence of Shawqī's Pharaonist message is most clearly communicated.

Subject Term

African literature

Subject Term

Middle Eastern literature

Mohamed, Aya

Stetkevych, Suzanne P.

Indiana University

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