التناصّ القرآني في روايه «اللص والكلاب» لنجيب محفوظ

Literary criticism is a lively science which develops with the development of societies and peopleʹs 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 known as the crisis of intellectuals. The political and social crises led to an intellectual crisis. These factors made the conditions that influenced Naguib Mahfouz to write philosophic novels and to use Qur’an in these novels.Here we are trying to discuss and discover the influence of Qurʹan on his novel "The Thief and the Dogs" using internal and external intertextuality and to find out the authorʹs purpose of Qurʹanic intertextuality in his novel by studying the codes in the novel. The selected method in this paper is the descriptive-analytic method that is based on the call of absent text in the novel “The Thief and the Dogs”, and then the explanation of the intertextual measures.