Encyclopedia of Arab Narrative

Author: Abdullah Ibrahim

A unique project that took over 20 years of continuous work. It was published by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation to be a pioneering knowledge addition to the Arab literary library.

A comprehensive understanding of the history of the emergence of major narrative genres in Arab literature (Maqamat, fairy tales, popular biographies, travel literature, modern novels), with a comprehensive analysis of their narrative and semantic structures.
Theoretical foundations for analyzing Arab narrative and its cultural contexts.
A comprehensive description of the cultural conditions that fostered the emergence of narrative genres in ancient Arab literature, and an extensive analysis of the structure of each genre.
Travel literature and the description of wandering experiences and what was written about them in writings overflowing with excitement and suspense, which generated passion among researchers to study them.
An attempt to reconstruct the cultural context for the emergence of modern Arab narrative.
A book that celebrates the novel by making it the "divan" of Arabs in the modern era, and the field of aesthetic creativity that has overflowed into the modern Arab library.
Women and their literary value and prominent position in the field of Arab narrative, ancient and modern, and feminist narrative creations that are a source of pride for the value of women in Arab literature.
A clear highlight of confessional literature, which is surrounded by much caution in some societies that imagine themselves to be free from errors.
Imagined historical narrative literature and its literary and aesthetic value, away from the element of documentation and the search for facts.
General and comprehensive indexes that help the researcher easily extract what they are looking for.