qur’anic intertextuality in naguib mahfouz's novel, “the thief and the dogs”

literary criticism is a lively science which develops with the development of societies and people's thoughts. this science has connections to other human sciences and amongst its branches intertextuality has a root in old arabic literary criticism with similarities to adoption, plagiarism, and parody. but the difference is that intertextuality is pre-designed and on purpose and does not occur evidently. in the simplest definition intertextuality means the overlap of texts. in this research we have chosen qur’anic intertextuality among various types of intertextuality to survey the ‘the thief and the dogs’ which is one of the philosophic novels of naguib mahfouz and is about the return to the roots and the quest for allah. this novel was created during the years of consecutive revolutions and especially the 1952 revolution that resulted in the downfall of king farouq’s government and the rise of a republic state. these conditions became ...