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This volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature provides the first authoritative, comprehensive, critical survey of creative writing in Arabic from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The rise of secular education, printing and journalism created a new reading public, and Western ideas and literary forms, notably the novel, the short story, and drama, became influential. This book examines the attempts made by Arab men and women to adapt the imported forms as well as the indigenous literary tradition to meet the requirements of the modern world. Quoted material is given in English translation and there is an extensive bibliography.
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ARABIC LITERATURE MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE EDITED BY M. M. BADAWI Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521331975 © Cambridge University Press 1992 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1992 Reprinted 1997 A catalogue recordfor this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Modern Arabic literature/edited by M. M. Badawl. cm. - (The Cambridge History of Arabic literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-521-33197-8 (hardback) 1. Arabic literature — 20th century — History and criticism. I. Badawl, Muhammad Mustafl. II. Series. PJ7538.M58 1992 892'.7095 - dc20 91-41007-CIP p. ISBN-13 978-0-521-33197-5 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-33197-8 hardback Transferred to digital printing 2006 CONTENTS page vii viii xii Editorial note Chronological table of events Map of the Arab World 1 Introduction I. The background by M. M. B A D A W I , University of Oxford i II. Translations and adaptations 1834—1914 by P I E R R E C A C H I A , Columbia University 23 2 The Neo-classical Arabic poets by S. S O M E K H , Tel Aviv University 36 3 The Romantic poets by R. C. O S T L E , University of Oxford 82 4 Modernist poetry in Arabic by S A L M A K H A D R A J A Y Y U S I , PROTA, chusetts 5 6 Cambridge, Massa- The beginnings of the Arabic novel by R O G E R A L L E N , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 180 The mature Arabic novel outside Egypt 193 by R O G E R 7 132 ALLEN The Egyptian novel from Zaynab to 1980 by H I L A R Y K I L P A T R I C K , University of Berne 223 VI 8 9 CONTENTS The modern Arabic short story by S A B R Y H A F E Z , School of Oriental and African University of London 270 Studies, Arabic drama: early developments by M . M . 329 BADAWI Io Arabic drama since the thirties by A L I A L - R A C I , University of Ain Shams, Cairo I1 T h e prose stylists 358 404 by P I E R R E C A C H I A 12 The critics 417 by P I E R R E C A C H I A 13 Arab women writers by M I R I A M COOKE, Duke University 443 14 Poetry in the vernacular by M A R I L Y N B O O T H , Champaig