Children of the Alley

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Children of the Alley is a controversial novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that allegorically retells religious and social history through the lives of successive generations in a Cairo alley.

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Children of the Alley canonical 3

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instanceOf novel
allegoricallyRepresents Christianity
Islam
Judaism
modern science
alsoKnownAs Children of Gebelawi
author Naguib Mahfouz
authorNationality Egyptian
authorReceived Nobel Prize in Literature
bannedIn Egypt
banReason religious controversy
censorshipType prohibited from full publication in Egypt for many years
controversialFor allegorical portrayal of religious figures
perceived criticism of religion
countryOfOrigin Egypt
firstPublicationForm newspaper serial
firstPublisher Al-Ahram newspaper
genre allegorical novel
religious allegory
social novel
hasCentralTheme conflict between science and faith
history of humanity
power and oppression
religion
social justice
hasForm prose fiction
hasLiterarySignificance major work in modern Arabic literature
one of Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novels
hasTheme human suffering
role of knowledge
struggle against tyranny
languageOfFirstPublication Arabic
literaryMovement modern Arabic novel
mainLocationType urban alley
medium print
narrativeDevice allegorical retelling of religious history
narrativeStructure multi-generational saga
notableCharacterType patriarch of the alley
successive prophetic figures
originalLanguage Arabic
publicationYear 1959
setting Cairo
an alley in Cairo
timePeriodOfStory from mythic past to modern era
spans several generations
titleInArabic Awlad Haratina
translatedInto English
French
German
multiple languages

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Children of Gebelawi hasTitleVariant Children of the Alley
Gebelawi as godlike figure appearsIn Children of the Alley
Gebelawi appearsIn Children of the Alley