The Influence of the Western Novel on Arabic Narrative From the Perspective of "Abdullah Ibrahim"

Abstract

has led Arab critics to impose on the Arabic text within visions alien to it that do not grasp its aesthetics and the culture in which it was produced. Abdullah Ibrahim is one of the most important critics who tried to refute the idea that the Arabic novel is a product of Western literature and that it is foreign to Arabic literature due to the conditions that prevailed in the West in the 19th century - which had a great impact on the countries of the Levant, especially during the colonial campaigns - and accordingly, Ibrahim tried to deconstruct the old Arabic texts and study their development by linking them to Arabic culture and its particularities without neglecting their relationship to Western influences, especially after the Arabization movement and the colonial campaign, in order to ultimately demolish the assumption that the Arabic novel is a purely Western product.