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Journal of Arabic Literature (Jali)
Published by Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
ISSN : 27460118     EISSN : 27225585     DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/jali.v2i1.10111
Core Subject : Humanities,
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Journal of Arabic Literature (Jali) (ISSN Print: 2746-0118 and E-ISSN: 2722-5585) is a journal of Arabic Literature focused on literary studies, such as literary history, literary theories, literary criticism, and others. The article must be written in either Arabic or English. JaLi: Journal of Arabic Literature is published twice a year on June and December by Language and Arabic Literature Programme Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Sastra dan Teori Sastra
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Between European Rationality And Eastern Spirituality: A Deconstruction Of Identity And Modernity In Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Novel 'Uṣfūr Min Al-Syarq Jumriyah Jumriyah; Mubasyiroh Mubasyiroh; Siti Fatimah; Muhammad Zakki Masykur
Journal of Arabic Literature (JaLi) Vol 7, No 2 (2026): Journal of Arabic Literature (Jali)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18860/jali.v7i2.41277

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This article examines ʿUṣfūr min al-Sharq by Tawfiq al-Hakim as a dialectical exploration of European rationality and Eastern spirituality within the discourse of modernity. Modernity is frequently framed in binary terms: the West as rational, material, and technologically advanced, and the East as spiritual and tradition-bound. Such dichotomies, however, often overlook how identity is constructed and negotiated in modern Arabic literature. While previous scholarship has read the novel through the lens of civilizational conflict, it has seldom undertaken a deconstructive analysis of how East–West identities are destabilized and reconfigured through the characters' existential struggles. This study addresses two questions: (1) how are European rationality and Eastern spirituality narratively constructed in the novel, and (2) how are identity and modernity dismantled through the characters' inner conflicts and relationships? Employing qualitative interpretive literary analysis informed by Derridean deconstruction and postcolonial theory, the article traces the text's ambivalent and paradoxical structures of meaning. The findings show that the protagonist Muhsin's dialogues with the Russian intellectual Ivan expose the existential emptiness of a Western rationality that excludes the transcendent from its account of the world, while Muhsin's admission of a faith as fragile and wavering as a flower in the wind reveals Eastern spirituality to be equally unstable once subjected to modern rationalization. Through the Opera scene—where Muhsin's aesthetic and emotional response is set against Ivan's disillusioned critique of Europe—the novel reframes modernity not as a fixed Western achievement but as a hybrid third space of identity negotiation. The study contributes a deconstructive rereading that moves beyond the civilizational-conflict paradigm, demonstrating how al-Hakim's narrative unsettles the very binary it appears to stage.
Portrait of Social Inequality and Family Crisis in Mirāth by Muhammad Husayn Haykal: Literary Realism Approach Husnul Khotimah; Misbahus Surur
Journal of Arabic Literature (JaLi) Vol 7, No 2 (2026): Journal of Arabic Literature (Jali)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18860/jali.v7i2.42507

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As a mimetic cultural artifact, literary conflict frequently encodes the socio-political tensions and ideological fractures of its originating society. Within the framework of literary realism, this study critically interrogates the representation of social inequality and familial disintegration in Muhammad Husayn Haikal's short story "Mirāth," which is featured in his collection Qiṣaṣ Miṣriyya (first published in 1969 and republished by Muassasah Handawi in 2014). Departing from purely formalist readings, this research argues that Haikal's narrative conflicts serve as a diagnostic lens through which the structural asymmetries of early twentieth-century Egyptian society are laid bare. Employing a descriptive qualitative methodology, data were gathered via close reading, translation, and systematic note-taking, subsequently analyzed using the Miles and Huberman interactive model. The findings delineate four interlocking tropes of social reality: structural inequality, gender asymmetry, domestic discord, and moral erosion. Collectively, these elements substantiate the short story's function not merely as a literary reflection, but as a critical social document. The study ultimately contends that the story's depiction of mismanagement in inheritance and waqf (endowment) systems operates as a catalytic agent of protracted communal strife, thereby contributing to broader scholarly discourses on the intersection between Arabic realist narrative and socio-economic critique.
Interpersonal Character of Sardunya in the Novel al-Bint Allatī Lā Tuḥibbu Ismahā by Elif Şafak Uswatul Qodriyah
Journal of Arabic Literature (JaLi) Vol 7, No 2 (2026): Journal of Arabic Literature (Jali)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18860/jali.v7i2.39533

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Personality development in children exposed to bullying is often described in general or moralistic terms, leaving the underlying interpersonal mechanisms unexamined. This study addresses that gap by using Harry Stack Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry as an analytical lens to trace how the personality of Sardunya, the bullied main character in Elif Şafak's novel al-Bint Allātī Lā Tuḥibbu Ismāhā (The Girl Who Didn't Like Her Name), develops around a single stigmatized attribute: her name. Using a qualitative descriptive design, textual data were collected from the Arabic translation of the novel, coded deductively against Sullivan's four constructs — dynamism, personification, self-system, and cognitive process — and then purposively narrowed to the excerpts bearing directly on Sardunya's relationship to her name. The analysis shows that Sardunya's discomfort with her name predates the bullying itself, surfacing first as a quiet envy directed at the adults who named her; that repeated ridicule, especially during classroom roll call, fragments her self-image into Good Me, Bad Me, and Not Me, met chiefly by dissociation as a defense; and that her cognitive processing matures from parataxic impression to syntaxic judgment, a shift that eventually allows a single compliment about her name to register as trustworthy rather than as an exception. Read this way, Sardunya's development is not a wound that heals but an identity gradually reclaimed: by the novel's end, the mockery is not erased, but it no longer settles the question of who she is. The study offers literary scholars and educators a concrete account of how a stigmatized identity can be reworked through accumulated interpersonal experience rather than through any single corrective moment.

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