Historical Imagination in the Modern Arabic Novel The Druze of Belgrade

Articolo della rivista, Anno XII, numero 23, giugno 2022
True historical events and figures are generally the basis of any historical novel, but a novel requires a literary form created by the imagination. Usually, the author introduces a combination of real and imagined facts. In his historical novel Durūz Bilġrād. Ḥikāyat Ḥannā Ya‘qūb (The Druze of Belgrade), Rabī‘ Ǧābir [...]