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All Journal Journal of Arabic Language and Literature Studies
Nabilah Binti Yusof
Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Negeri Sembilan
Arts Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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RECONFIGURING AL-MADĪNAH AL-FĀḌILAH THROUGH ALCOHOL DISCOURSE IN IRAQ AND BELGIUM: A STUDY OF ‘ĀZIF AL-GHUYŪM BY ‘ALĪ BADR: Iʿādat tashkīl al-Madīnah al-Fāḍilah min khilāl khuṭāb al-khamr fī al-ʿIrāq wa-Biljīkā: dirāsah fī riwāyah ʿĀzif al-Ghuyūm li-ʿAlī Badr Teguh Luhuringbudi; Fitri Liza; Dewi Nita Utami; Nabilah Binti Yusof; Yahya Shaykh Ahmad
ALLAIS Journal of Arabic Language and Literature Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026)
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Mas Said Surakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/allais.v5i1.10944

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This study examines how ‘Alī Badr’s novel ‘Āzif al-Ghuyūm reconstructs the concept of al-Madīnah al-Fāḍilah through representations of alcohol consumption in Iraq and Belgium. While alcohol is commonly associated with moral decline in Islamic and Arab discourses, the novel presents it as a cultural and symbolic medium through which characters negotiate identity, social belonging, and visions of an ideal society. Employing a descriptive-qualitative design, the study analyzes dialogues and monologues in the novel through an interdisciplinary framework that combines realism theory, balāghah studies, and literary representation theory. Data were collected through close reading, textual selection, and categorization procedures and analyzed through description, interpretation, and contextualization. The findings demonstrate that the novel reconfigures al-Madīnah al-Fāḍilah not as a fixed religious or political ideal but as a dynamic cultural construct emerging from everyday social practices. Alcohol functions as a narrative device that exposes tensions between individual freedom and collective morality, while simultaneously revealing contrasting cultural perceptions in Iraq and Belgium. The study argues that the novel challenges conventional binary oppositions between virtue and vice and contributes to contemporary debates on utopian and dystopian imagination in modern Arabic literature.
Co-Authors Dewi Nita Utami Fitri Liza Teguh Luhuringbudi Yahya Shaykh Ahmad