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Malḥamat al-ḥarāfīsh, taʼlīf Najīb Maḥfūẓ

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Malḥamat al-ḥarāfīsh

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taʼlīf Najīb Maḥfūẓ

880-04, "Naguib Mahfouz's greatest and most important epic, in which he describes the human soul and its rupture between the search for salvation and the pursuit of pleasures. Ten stories, crowded with everything in life of struggle, sweetness and temptation, in which the sons of the "great survivor" are represented as reformers, searching for justice and goodness, each in his own way, so they stand in the face of injustice and suffer temptation and the impulses of the human soul; they fall and win, corrupt and reform, in an amazing epic that successive generations over two centuries, from the era of the great survivor until Ashour, the last survivor. The novel was published in 1977, and its stories were transferred to the cinema screen six times in the eighties, and then to the small screen in 2002."--, Publisher