Ayman El-Desouky
Biographic Data
| ID | 4883901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayman El-Desouky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayman |
| FAMILY NAME | El-Desouky |
| SIGNATURE | EL-DESOUKY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Amāra on the Square
During and immediately after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, the creative impulse that accompanied social and political demands shifted toward a collective sense of regained agency, or “connective agency.” The spontaneous acts of mobilization, artworks from found objects, street performances, the reshaping of slogans and chants into sustained musical composition—these all tap into cultural memory, offering radical and socially cementing modes of…
The Amāra on the Square
During and immediately after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, the creative impulse that accompanied social and political demands shifted toward a collective sense of regained agency, or “connective agency.” The spontaneous acts of mobilization, artworks from found objects, street performances, the reshaping of slogans and chants into sustained musical composition—these all tap into cultural memory, offering radical and socially cementing modes of…
The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture
The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra – the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency – to explore the relationship between the Egyptia
Between Hermeneutic Provenance and Textuality
In literary approaches to the Qur'an, Qur'anic voice is relegated to the unknowability of its divine ‘provenance’, its issuing source of voice, which is implicitly taken to be outside of the text. The fundamental hermeneutic task, which is that of investigating how a text produces meaning, is principally a theological task, but it is assumed in most literary approaches to the Qur'an to be other than the literary critical task. And yet it is this …
Naẓm , iʿjāz , Discontinuous Kerygma
The present study offers tentative reflections toward approaching the questions of revelation, iʿjāz, naẓm and Qur'anic voice from within modern conceptual frames of the literary and the sacred which focus not so much on the poetic and the metaphorical as on the historical. What is meant by the historical here is the locus of human experience in its receptivity to the revealed word: the response to the very fact of revelation, which turns the exp…
Heterologies of revolutionary action
This article considers a fundamental aspect of literary modernity: the emergence of new forms of historical consciousness that have attended the rise of new modes of discourse since the 1920s. It focuses on Mahfouz’s novel Awlād hāratinā [1959; 1967; 2006; Children of the Alley] – not on its well-known notorious and complex history of reception, but specifically on the form of historical consciousness presented in and through the narrative, a typ…
The Amāra on the Square
During and immediately after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, the creative impulse that accompanied social and political demands shifted toward a collective sense of regained agency, or “connective agency.” The spontaneous acts of mobilization, artworks from found objects, street performances, the reshaping of slogans and chants into sustained musical composition—these all tap into cultural memory, offering radical and socially cementing modes of…
Heterologies of revolutionary action
This article considers a fundamental aspect of literary modernity: the emergence of new forms of historical consciousness that have attended the rise of new modes of discourse since the 1920s. It focuses on Mahfouz’s novel Awlād hāratinā [1959; 1967; 2006; Children of the Alley] – not on its well-known notorious and complex history of reception, but specifically on the form of historical consciousness presented in and through the narrative, a typ…
Heterologies of revolutionary action
This article considers a fundamental aspect of literary modernity: the emergence of new forms of historical consciousness that have attended the rise of new modes of discourse since the 1920s. It focuses on Mahfouz’s novel Awlād hāratinā [1959; 1967; 2006; Children of the Alley] – not on its well-known notorious and complex history of reception, but specifically on the form of historical consciousness presented in and through the narrative, a typ…
Naẓm , iʿjāz , Discontinuous Kerygma
The present study offers tentative reflections toward approaching the questions of revelation, iʿjāz, naẓm and Qur'anic voice from within modern conceptual frames of the literary and the sacred which focus not so much on the poetic and the metaphorical as on the historical. What is meant by the historical here is the locus of human experience in its receptivity to the revealed word: the response to the very fact of revelation, which turns the exp…
The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture
The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture uses the notion of am?ra – the Egyptian concept of collective and connective agency – to explore the relationship between the Egyptia
Between Hermeneutic Provenance and Textuality
In literary approaches to the Qur'an, Qur'anic voice is relegated to the unknowability of its divine ‘provenance’, its issuing source of voice, which is implicitly taken to be outside of the text. The fundamental hermeneutic task, which is that of investigating how a text produces meaning, is principally a theological task, but it is assumed in most literary approaches to the Qur'an to be other than the literary critical task. And yet it is this …
The Amāra on the Square
During and immediately after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, the creative impulse that accompanied social and political demands shifted toward a collective sense of regained agency, or “connective agency.” The spontaneous acts of mobilization, artworks from found objects, street performances, the reshaping of slogans and chants into sustained musical composition—these all tap into cultural memory, offering radical and socially cementing modes of…
The Amāra on the Square
During and immediately after the Egyptian revolution of 2011, the creative impulse that accompanied social and political demands shifted toward a collective sense of regained agency, or “connective agency.” The spontaneous acts of mobilization, artworks from found objects, street performances, the reshaping of slogans and chants into sustained musical composition—these all tap into cultural memory, offering radical and socially cementing modes of…
Art (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Hermeneutics (2 works)