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_a892.73 GH.P 2007 _b01959 |
| 100 | 1 | _aGhīṭānī, Jamāl | |
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_aMutūn al-Ahrām. _lEnglish |
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_aPyramid texts / _cGamal al-Ghitani ; translated by Humphrey Davies |
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_aCairo ; _aNew York : _bAmerican University in Cairo Press, _c2007 |
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_a131 pages ; _c21 cm |
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| 490 | 1 | _aModern Arabic Literature | |
| 500 | _a"First published in Arabic in 1994 as Mutum al-ahram"--Title page verso | ||
| 500 | _aOriginal title: Al-Ahram Matteawan | ||
| 520 | 1 | _a"Built for eternity and radiating an aura of the divine, the pyramids have inspired wonder and fear for millennia. In this novel, Gamal al-Ghitani uses these enigmatic monuments to evoke the human quest for wisdom and enlightenment. Weaving strands of Sufi mysticism and medieval Islamic history into ancient Egypt's most enduring symbols, Pyramid Texts beguiles the imagination with its masterful use of language, its haunting parables, and its glimpses of divine revelation." "In a series of chapters each shorter than the last - so that, like their subjects, they taper ultimately into nothingness - the author traces the obsessions that have drawn men over the centuries to the brooding presence of the pyramids. A Moroccan shaykh spends years contemplating them in the hope that one day he will understand their mysteries. Seven young men enter the Great Pyramid of Giza, seeking illumination as they penetrate its heart of darkness. Another visitor waits patiently for the moment when the shadow of one pyramid will diverge from its accustomed path and bestow immortality. In each of these tales, the pyramids are the link between the physical and the eternal, the point "where matter ends, and the void begins." Evoking both the modernist fiction of Jorge Luis Borges and the Sufi poetry of Rumi, Pyramid Texts is a revelation in itself."--Jacket | |
| 546 | _aIn English translated from the Arabic | ||
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_aGhīṭānī, Jamāl _vTranslations into English |
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_aPyramids _zEgypt _vFiction |
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_aEgypt _vFiction |
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_aFiction. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423787 |
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_aTranslations. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423791 |
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_aDavies, Humphrey T. _q(Humphrey Taman) |
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_iOnline version: _aGhīṭānī, Jamāl. _sMutūn al-Ahrām. English. _tPyramid texts. _dCairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, ©2007 _w(OCoLC)608482194 |
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