Contents

pp v-v

Preface

pp vi-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xviii

Note on Transliterations

pp xix-xx

Introduction: Towards a Spectral Theory of World Literature

pp 1-68

I - The Worlding of “Literature” in the Middle East

pp 69-70

1 - The Shabaḥ of Modernity: World-Systems, the Petro-Imperium, and the Indigenous Trace

pp 71-109

2 - A Genealogy of Adab in the Comparative Middle East

pp 110-174

II - The Middle Eastern Novel and the Spectral Life-World of Modernity

pp 175-176

3 - The Revolution of Form: Naguib Mahfouz from the Suez Crisis to the Arab Spring

pp 177-214

4 - Islam and the Limits of Translation: Orhan Pamuk and the Ottoman Revival

pp 215-259

5 - Women in the Literary Marketplace: The Anglophone Iranian Novel and the Feminist Subject

pp 260-299

Conclusion: Futures of Spectrality

pp 300-307

Bibliography

pp 308-331

Index

pp 332-340