- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Text Narrative Analysis Compositional Techniques
- 3. The Prophets: Islamic Legend in Sirat Sayf Adam Noah Abraham Moses Solomon The General Prophetic Intertext
- 4. The Gods: Sirat Sayf and Ancient Egyptian Myth Ancient Egyptian Narrative and Sirat Sayf The Osiris Intertext Osiris and Horus, Death and Re-birth: Dhu Yazan, Sayf and His Sons
- 5. The King: Sirat Sayf and the Alexander Romance The Qur'anic Alexander The Alexander Romance The Persian Alexander Romance The Alexander Intertext
- 6. Conclusion: Intertextual Dialogue in the Diversion Of The Nile The Diversion of the Nile The Dialogue of Intertexts Insiders and Outsiders: Noah's Curse, Bilqis, and Habash Appendix: Glossary of Principal Characters Bibliography.
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This book is a literary, intertextual study of an Egyptian popular epic. In this innovative study, Helen Blatherwick investigates how various sources, including Islamic qisas al-anbiya' ('tales of the prophets'), Pharaonic, Graeco-Roman and Coptic Egyptian myths and narratives, and recensions of the Alexander Romance function as intertexts within Sirat Sayf. Blatherwick argues that these intertexts are deployed as narrative devices which are readily recognisable to the story's audience, and that they are significant carriers of meaning and theme. Crucially, these intertexts also interact within Sirat Sayf to bring a conceptual continuity to its discussion of kingship and society that stretches from this late-medieval epic back to ancient Egyptian narratives.
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