The Christian Spirituality in the Modern Egyptian Prose

This bachelor's thesis is dedicated to understanding of themes of the Christian spirituality and the Coptic identity in the novels H̱ālatī Ṣafīya wa-ad-dayr (My Aunt Ṣafiyya and the Monastery, 1991) and Ḥiǧārat Būbillū (Stones of Apollo, 1993) by two important Egyptian authors Bahā' Ṭāhir and Idwār al-Kharrāṭ. By means of textual analysis of the two novels, the thesis analyses the significance of space and place in the narrative construction, the use of the Christian symbolics in the description of the Coptic community and a possibility of literary fiction extending into to the real world and its impact on the formation of the Coptic culture. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org