Rediscovering Ancient Egyptian Literature through Arabic Poetics

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Hany Rashwan is assistant professor of Arabic Language and Literature at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He was aresearch fellow of Arabic literary theory at the University of Birmingham,where he led the Arabic poetics strand of the Global Literary Theory project funded by the European Research Council. He previously held an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the American University of Beirut. The recipient of an International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) Research Fellowship, Rashwan earned his PhD in Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Stephen Quirke is professor of Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His publications include Going out in Daylight - prt m hrw: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead - translation, sources, meanings (2013).

Ayman A. El-Desouky is associate professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar. He is the author of The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture: Am ra and the 2011 Revolution (2014).

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A Note on Dates, Translations, Transliterations, and Comparative Scope

1. Indigenous Egyptologists and Eurocentric Monopoly
Eurocentric AE literary theories

2. The Bible as a Motor of AE Comparisons
Eurocentric comparative disciplines
The Birth of Comparative Bal gha
AE Bal gha and Eurocentric Literary Criticism

3. Jin s through the Lens of Eurocentrism
From Pure Greco-Roman to the Modern Colonial Languages
The Artificial Universality of Eurocentric Literary Terms
The Conceptual Resonance of Arabic Literary Terms

4. Writing versus Language in the AE Culture
The Pictorial Realism of AE Writing
Visual Morphology Generates New Semantics
The Realms of mAA 'to see' in Reading the AE Writing
Aesthetical Calligraphy of AE Scripts

5. Linguistic Classification of the AE Language
AE-Semitic Relationship
Rethinking Phonetics of the AE Writing

6. The Death of AE Writers and Readers
Euro-American scholarship of AE literature
Literariness between Eurocentrism and modernism
The Premodern Concept of Arabic Adab

7. Definition of Bal gha (linguistically and conceptually)
Vocal form (laf ) and poetic meaning (män ) in bal gha
AE Literary mdt-kal m

8. Definitions of Jin s within Early Bal gha
Jin s through the Disciplines of Bal gha
Various Types of Arabic Jin s

9. Partial Jin s ( - - )

10. Morphological Jin s ( )

11. Reversed Jin s ( - - )

12. Major morphological jin s ( )

13. Resemblance Jin s ( )

14. Beginning Letters Jin s ( )

15. Visual Jin s ( - )
Related Determinatives
Contrasted Words with the Same Determinative
Contrasted Words with Contrasting Determinatives
Different Words with the Same Determinative
Using an Unusual Determinative

16. General categories and functions of jin s
Jin s is Intentional or Accidental?
Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Jin s Functions
(1) A device of literary enjoyment
(2) Framing the highlighted message
AE framing jin s on the sentence level
AE framing jin s on the stanza level
(3) A device for reader Immersion
(4) Persuasive literary device
(5) Informative literary device

Conclusion
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