The Epic of the Al-Harafish

Book name: The Epic of the Harafeesh Author: Naguib Mahfouz Publisher: Diwan for Publishing Book classification: Novels Number of pages: Summary of the book: The epic of Naguib Mahfouz the greatest and most important, in which he describes the human soul and its torn between seeking salvation and pursuing pleasures. Ten stories, crowded with everything in life of conflict, sweetness, and seduction, in which the sons of "the Great Survivor" are represented as reformers seeking justice and goodness in their own way, standing against injustice and enduring temptation and the urges of the human soul; they fall and triumph, corrupt and reform, in an astonishing epic in which generations succeed over two centuries from the era of the Great Survivor to the last Ashour the Survivor. The novel was published in 1977 and its stories were adapted to the cinema six times in the 1980s and then to television in 2002.