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Mahmudah Mahmudah
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

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Magical Realism in Ahmad Sa'dawiy's Frankenstein fi Bagdad Mahmudah Mahmudah
Humaniora Vol 28, No 2 (2016)
Publisher : Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (399.346 KB) | DOI: 10.22146/jh.16397

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This article discusses the use of magic realism as a literary device in the Iraqi novel Frankenstein fī Bagdād written by Aḥmad Sa‘dāwiy. The novel is set in the period of inter-ethnic conflict which arose after the American invasion of 2003. Hādī, the main character of the novel, ‘creates a monster’ namely Syismah from the corpses of the many bomb victims in Baghdad. The writer combines setting of the novel with belief of the Iraq people, horoscope practice, and magic, in mystical and illogical atmosphere. Given its magic realist qualities, the analysis draws on the approach of Wendy B. Faris. The article identifies five key elements from magic realism present in the novel, and discusses the relationship between these elements in order to better understand the social, ideological, and political context of the novel. The analysis shows that there are relationships between two worlds: death and life, human and ghost, physical and metaphysical, natural and supernatural.
THE PRINCIPLES OF BALANCE AND THE EMERGENCE OF HUMANITY AWARENESS IN ‘ALI AHMAD BAKĀTSĪR’S SALLĀMAH AL-QASS: ISLAMIC LITERARY PERSPECTIVE Mahmudah Mahmudah
CMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies) Vol 15, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Arabic Literature Department

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20961/cmes.15.2.63255

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The worship of a servant to God will fall short of perfection without paying attention and treating those around them with respect. ‘Ali Ahmad Bakātsīr, through Sallāmah al-Qass, told a young man who solely practices solitary worship in his daily life and then suddenly falls in love with a sweet-voiced entertainer girl who changes his life. This paper aims to show the principles of balance and their impact on raising humanity's awareness in the novel, which can be classified as a textual-formalistic puritan Islamic literary work from an Islamic literary perspective. The data collection was carried out based on the work literature study method. The data were obtained by carefully reading the figures’ words, thoughts, and attitudes leading to a predetermined formal object. The data analysis method used was the interpretive method. The principles of balance found in the novel are (1) balance between individual worship and social worship, (2) balance between physical and spiritual life, and (3) balance between worldly life and the hereafter. These principles raise humanity's awareness, namely (1) other people outside of oneself need to be considered, not abandoned, and (2) one should not justify the good or bad of the other by only looking at their outward actions. Thus, the three principles of balance proposed by 'Ali Aḥmad Bakāṡīr in Sallāmah al-Qass show Islamic values, which are expected to be a guide for the life of Muslims. This is because this work is a puritan Islamic literature committed to implementing Islamic teachings for its adherents or believer.
Listening to the Eritrean Migrants’ Vulnerability Voices in Ragwah Saudā` Arabic Eritrean Novel: A Postcolonial Perspective Mahmudah Mahmudah
LiNGUA: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra Vol 21, No 1 (2026): LiNGUA
Publisher : Laboratorium Informasi & Publikasi Fakultas Humaniora UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18860/ling.v21i1.36832

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The study aims to demonstrate the vulnerability of Eritrean migrants in the Arabic novel Ragwah Saudā` (2018) by Eritrean writer Ḥajjī Jābir. It analyzes this phenomenon using Postcolonial Theory in relation to migration, considering that migration is a long-term consequence of European colonialism and that the new Eritrean authorities behave in a colonial manner. To operationalize this framework, the study applies the concept of vulnerability to examine the conditions Eritrean migrants face. This research employs an interpretive method, a technique of giving meaning to data that have been classified interpretively in a postcolonial perspective. The results indicate that the primary cause of Eritreans' departure from their homeland was compulsory military service imposed by the authoritarian government. Thus, Eritreans experienced vulnerability from the outset, a condition that can be described as a form of biopolitics. Eritrean migrants are also narrated as experiencing vulnerability throughout their migration journey, particularly in several locations in Ethiopia and in their destination country, Israel. This vulnerability is closely related to religious identity and otherness. Although migrants have attempted to create new narratives about themselves, they have not been able to escape the vulnerability they experience.
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