Abstract:Notions could be warriors in a battle, totally ready to fight against other notions without shedding the blood of their utterers. Naguib Mahfouz's two allegory-based novels Khufu's Wisdom (1939) and Sons of Our Alley (1959) were banned when they were first published because they symbolized some religious figures. Accordingly, Mahfouz became a subject of an issued fatwa of a death sentence that led to an unsuccessful assault in 1994.This paper attempts to prove that Mahfouz's main target behind using religio… Show more
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