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100			_93511 _aBlatherwick, Helen
245			_aProphets, Gods and Kings in Sirat Sayf Ibn Dhi Yazan: _bAn Intertextual Reading of an Egyptian Popular Epic / _cHelen Blatherwick
260			_aLeiden _bBRILL _c2016
300			_a335 _c6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
520			_aThis book is a literary, intertextual study of an Egyptian popular epic. In this innovative study, Helen Blatherwick investigates how various sources, including Islamic qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ ('tales of the prophets'), Pharaonic, Graeco-Roman and Coptic Egyptian myths and narratives, and recensions of the Alexander Romance function as intertexts within Sīrat Sayf. Blatherwick argues that these intertexts are deployed as narrative devices which are readily recognisable to the story's audience, and that they are significant carriers of meaning and theme. Crucially, these intertexts also interact within Sīrat Sayf to bring a conceptual continuity to its discussion of kingship and society that stretches from this late-medieval epic back to ancient Egyptian narratives
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