Product Description: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A multigenerational saga chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the al-Nagi family, from Ashur, a man of humble origins who becomes a great leader, through the decadence and decay of his descendants, to their final redemption

Protrays an Egyptian family in Cairo at the turn of the century relating the culture and life in an intimacy with all its characters

The first book of the Cairo Trilogy recreates turn-of-the-century Cairo, with characters who are simultaneously disciplined and sensual

As the century progresses, the head of the middle-class Cairene family finds that his absolute authority has eroded and that his children, now grown and independent, are defying and dismaying him

Traces the dreams and desires of a Muslim family in the 1920s, as the enigmatic city of Cairo becomes a character in its own right

The completion of Khan al-Khalili in 1945 marked a turning point in Naguib Mahfouz’s career. Departing from the traditional themes drawn from Egyptian antiquity that characterize the author’s earlier works, Khan al-Khalili reflects instead a deep concern with the lives and problems of contemporary Egyptians.The time is 1942, the Second World War is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt as far as El Alamein. Against this backdrop of international upheaval, the novel tells the story of the Akifs, a middle-class family that has taken refuge in Cairo’s historic and bustling Khan al-Khalili neighborhood. Believing that the German forces will never bomb such a famously religious part of the city, they seek safety among the crowded alleyways, busy cafés, and ancient mosques of the Khan, adjacent to the area where Mahfouz himself spent much of his young life. Through the eyes of Ahmad, the eldest Akif son and the novel’s central character, Mahfouz presents a richly textured vision of the Khan, drawing on his own memories to assemble a lively cast of characters whose world is framed by the sights, smells, and flavors of his childhood home. As Ahmad, a minor civil servant who has sacrificed both education and personal ambition in order to support his family, interacts with the people and traditions of Khan al-Khalili, a debate emerges that pits old against new, history against modernity, and faith against secularism. Addressing one of the fundamental questions of the modern era, Mahfouz asks whether, like the German bombs that threaten Khan al-Khalili daily, progress must necessarily be accompanied by the destruction of the past.Fans of Midaq Alley, The Beginning and the End, and The Cairo Trilogy will not want to miss this engaging and sensitive portrayal of a family at the crossroads of the old world and the new.

Product Description: At a Cairo café, a cross-section of Egyptian society, young and old, rich and poor, are drawn together by the quality of its coffee and the allure of its owner, legendary former dancer Qurunfula. When three of the young patrons disappear for prolonged periods, the older customers display varying reactions to the news...read more

A trio of novels set against the backdrop of ancient Egypt includes Khufu's Wisdom, in which the great Fourth Dynasty ruler confronts the end of his reign and the growing love between his daughter and his chief rival; Rhadopis of Nubia, about the love affair between a pharaoh and a courtesan; and Thebes at War, about Egypt's victory over foreign invaders.

A haunting anthology of short fiction that draws on the Egyptian fascination with death and the afterlife explores the world of the supernatural as it follows the ghosts of such historical figures as Akhenaten, Woodrow Wilson, and Gamal Abd al-Nasser, who endure a strange kind of earthly probation in the hopes of gaining entry to the Seventh Heaven. Original.

Angered over an insult and determined to rid all Egypt of the Asiatic foreigners who have dominated northern Egypt for two centuries, the pharaoh of southern Egypt launches a campaign to rid the country of foreign influence and to seize control of the throne of both regions, in a historical novel set against the backdrop of ancient Egypt. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

The great Fourth Dynasty ruler Khufu, for whom the Great Pyramid at Giza was built, is confronted by prophecies that foretell the end of his dynasty and the ascent of Djedefra, the son of the High Priest of Ra, to the throne of Eypt, but his battle to preserve his legacy is undermined by the growing attraction between Djedefra and Khufu's daughter, in a novel set against the backdrop of ancient Egypt. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: First published in 1956, this is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II.

An omnibus edition of three acclaimed novels by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer includes Wedding Song, The Search, and Respected Sir, about a man of humble origins who dreams of holding the position of Director General of the governmental department where he works as an archives clerk, an impossible dream that supercedes all other interests or people in his life. Original.

The three acclaimed novels in the Nobel Prize-winning author's epic trilogy--Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street--chronicle the lives of three generations in the family of Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, his sons and daughters, and five grandchildren, in Cairo during the Egyptian colonial era. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: In this beguiling new novel, originally published in 1985 and now appearing for the first time in the United States, Mahfouz tells with extraordinary insight the story of the "heretic pharaoh" or "sun king" -- and the first known monotheistic ruler -- whose iconoclastic and controversial reign during the 18th Dynasty (1540-1307 B...read more

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In his first nonfiction endeavor in English, the Nobel Prize-winning author, a renowned master of fiction, provides the intricately woven tapestry of his life as he reflects on old age, death, and life's transitory nature. Reprint. AB. K. PW.

Book by Mahfouz, Naguib

First published in Arabic in 1959, the story of an Egyptian family mirrors the spiritual history of humankind as a feudal lord disowns one son for diabolical pride and puts another son to the ultimate test. Reprint. NYT.