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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">35462</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2023-28-2-256-270</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">PNMZSE</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>LITERARY CRITICISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Литературоведение</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The evolution of Arabic historical literature and its current trends: canons and invariants</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Эволюция арабской исторической литературы и ее современные тенденции: каноны и инварианты</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-7913</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Zarytovskaya</surname><given-names>Victoria N.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Зарытовская</surname><given-names>Виктория Николаевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат педагогических наук, доцент, доцент ка- федры иностранных языков, факультет гуманитарных и социальных наук</p></bio><email>widaad@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4010-1634</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Al-Rahbi</surname><given-names>Ahmed M.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Аль-Рахби</surname><given-names>Ахмед Мохаммед</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, senior lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат филологических наук, доцент, старший преподаватель, кафедра иностранных языков, факультет гуманитарных и социальных наук</p></bio><email>al-rakhbi-a@rudn.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">RUDN University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-07-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>07</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>28</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 28, NO2 (2023)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 28, №2 (2023)</issue-title><fpage>256</fpage><lpage>270</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-07-20"><day>20</day><month>07</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Zarytovskaya V.N., Al-Rahbi A.M.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Зарытовская В.Н., Аль-Рахби А.М.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Zarytovskaya V.N., Al-Rahbi A.M.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Зарытовская В.Н., Аль-Рахби А.М.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/35462">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/35462</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The study is devoted to the peculiarities of the development of the Arabic historical novel, the consistent transformation and “erosion” of its canons within the framework of the literary trends of the 20th and 21st centuries. The relevance of the topic, on the one hand, is due to the fact that the historical novel has not lost its significance in Arabic national literature. The share of works of this genre is still high, they occupy the first lines in the distribution of literary prizes. On the other hand, against the background of the general process of globalization, it is interesting to trace the trajectory of the development of the genre in the so-called “lagging” literature, to which many researchers rank Arabic literature. Some works of the genre fell into the focus of both Arabic, Western, as well as domestic orientalist-literary critics and were subjected to deep comprehensive consideration. Today, however, the novels of recent decades also require analysis. The purpose of the study was not just to identify the works of Arab authors that have received wide recognition in recent years, but to fit them into the paradigm of the development of the historical genre and thereby determine its direction in the near future. To do this, the authors tried to compare classical historical novels with modern ones, characterizing their heroes, describing the periods in the history of the Arab world that Arab authors addressed and continue to address within the genre, determining the degree of epic, historical authenticity, etc., in modern examples of the genre. It was found out, that classical heroes with a standard set of heroic qualities that influence the course of history are replaced by thinkers, scientists, dervishes, ordinary observers, and critical epochs and specific historical events are replaced by troubles periods - before or after a catastrophe, major transformations. Conclusions were drawn about the historicity of Arabic literature back in the pre-Islamic era, the long-term preservation of the canons of the Early Middle Ages in the genre, the sharp transformation of the genre and the refusal from the canons under the influence of postmodernism that penetration into Arabic soil in the mid 1960s coincided with the military and social upheavals of the history of Arabs. The direction of the genre, which is pronounced today towards ethnoliterature, is emphasized.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Исследование посвящено особенностям развития арабского исторического романа, последовательной трансформации и «размыванию» его канонов в рамках литературных течений XX и XXI вв. Актуальность темы, с одной стороны, обусловлена тем, что исторический роман в арабской национальной литературе не утратил свою значимость. Доля произведений этого жанра по-прежнему высока, они занимают первые строчки при распределении литературных премий. С другой стороны, на фоне общего процесса глобализации интересно проследить траекторию развития жанра в так называемой догоняющей общемировые тенденции литературе, к которой многие исследователи причисляют литературу арабскую. Отдельные произведения жанра попадали в фокус как арабских, западных, так и отечественных востоковедов-литературоведов, и подвергались глубокому всестороннему рассмотрению. Однако сегодня анализа требуют романы последних десятилетий. Цель исследования - не просто обозначить получившие широкое признание за последние годы работы арабских авторов, но вписать их в парадигму развития исторического жанра и тем самым определить его направление на ближайшее время. Для этого сравнены классические исторические романы с современными, охарактеризованы их герои, описаны периоды истории Арабского мира, к которым обращались и обращаются арабские авторы в рамках жанра, определены степень эпичности, исторической достоверности в современных образцах жанра. Установлено, что классические герои со стандартным набором героических качеств, влияющие на ход истории, заменяются на мыслителей, ученых, дервишей, обывателей-наблюдателей, а переломные эпохи и конкретные исторические события сменяются пограничными периодами - до либо после катастрофы, коренных преобразований. Сделаны выводы об историчности арабской литературы еще в доисламскую эпоху, длительном сохранении канонов Раннего Средневековья в жанре, резкой трансформации жанра и отхода от канонов под влиянием постмодернизма и совпавшими по времени с его проникновением на арабскую почву военными и социальными потрясениями в истории арабских стран середины 1960-гг. Подчеркивается ярко выраженная сегодня направленность жанра в сторону этнолитературы.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>historical novel</kwd><kwd>Arabic literature</kwd><kwd>genre</kwd><kwd>hero</kwd><kwd>epic</kwd><kwd>ethno-literature</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>исторический роман</kwd><kwd>арабская литература</kwd><kwd>жанр</kwd><kwd>герой</kwd><kwd>эпичность</kwd><kwd>этнолитература</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Abu Baker, A. (2015). The problematics of identity and identity erasure in Youssef Zeidan‘s Azazeel. Retrieved December 13, 2022, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350561069_Alternative_Histories_in_Youssef_Ziedan's_Azazeel_Historiographic_Metafiction_in_the_Contemporary_Arabic_Historical_Novel</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Аль-Гибали М. 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