Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition

The first study to analyse the recognition scene in the Arabic narrative tradition Winner of the 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the category Arab Culture in Other Languages According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when hidden facts and identities come to light—in the classic instance, a son discovers in horror that his wife is his mother and his children are his siblings. Aristotle coined the term ‘anagn