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Love as the Driving Force of Creation: Sufism in Ahmed Bahjat's "Abraham's Birds" from Animal Stories in the Qur’an

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This paper explores the short story Abraham's Birds by the Egyptian writer Ahmed Bahjat as a Sufi piece of literature. The story is part of his collection Animal Stories in the Quran. The paper does not concern itself with questioning whether Bahjat is a Sufi himself or not; rather, it analyzes the artistic elements of the story: inspiration, way of writing, subject matter, style, language, and imagery in an attempt to prove that it is a piece of Sufi literature.  A very short background about     Sufism is given at the beginning.

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10.21608/herms.2018.71975

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Sufism, Ahmed Bahjat, Animal Stories in the Qur'an, Sufi love, Sufi literature, Prophet Abraham

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Mona

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Elnamoury

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Assistant professor of English Literatur,English Department Faculty of Arts Tanta University

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7

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2

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10943

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2018-04-01

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2020-02-18

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2018-04-01

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45

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84

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2090-8555

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2974-4695

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HERMS_Volume 7_Issue 2_Pages 45-84.pdf

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Love as the Driving Force of Creation: Sufism in Ahmed Bahjat's "Abraham's Birds" from Animal Stories in the Qur’an

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22 Jan 2023