“Zaabalawi” by Nagiub Mahfouz On the surface, “Zaabalawi by Nagiub Mahfouz is a classic story. By looking deeper, one finds strong religious and social undertones. The main religious themes in the story appear through the characters of Zaabalawi and the Narrator. The social themes are approached through Sheikh Quamar, the District Officer, Hassanein, and Sheikh Gad. Mahfouz partially uses these characters as an example of the effects that reason, technology and big business have on …showed first 75 words of 975 total…

…showed last 75 words of 975 total…statement. “In place of the voluble, irresistible flow of the original, Mahfouz has created a sequence of “pieces” or “takes”…where irony and ambiguity contend with the literal piety and realism “ (D’Evelyn 1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography 1. Maynard Mack “The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces” Sixth Edition. W.W. Norton and Company, New York, New York 1992 2. Thomas D’Evelyn “Arabian Nights and Days”. The Boston Book Review. Http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/fiction/arabian.html, April 1995