Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English

The Newbery Award winning novella A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L{u2018}Engle deals with the idea of the tesseract, which is the act of travelling in no time. This can be comparable to Prophet Muhammad{u2018}s alisrā{u2019} wa almi{u2018}rāj. Although A Wrinkle in Time won many awards and was adapted into two films and much has been written about alisrā{u2019} wa almi{u2018}rāj, there is no serious research that compares the tesseract and alisrā{u2019} wa almi{u2018}rāj. This thesis will focus on four selected Arabic stories for children that deal with Prophet Muhammad{u2018}s journey to analyze the use of space and time in them. Two of these Arabic short stories are by well-known Egyptian writers, namely, Abdel-Tawab Youssef and Kariman Hamza. The Bologna Award Winning book for children entitled حياة محمد فى عشرين قصة (A Life of Muhammad in Twenty Tales) by Youssef includes a short story on the burāq that took Prophet Muhammad on the journey to the heavens. The second short story is" سيد الخلق الإسراء -الدولة -غزوة بدر" (The Chosen One Among All Creatures: Alisrā{u2019}--The State--The Badr Incursion) written by Kariman Hamza, the Egyptian writer and the TV hostess. The two other Arabic stories are "سبحان الذي اسرى بعبده" (Glorified is He Who Took His Slave on Alisrā) by Rizk Hayba and Walid Helal{u2018}s أشياء في حياة الأنبياء (Things in the Lives of Prophets)

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