Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Ouverture -- 1 Naguib Mahfouz: (En)chanting Justice -- 2 Tayeb Salih: The Returns of the Saint -- 3 Maḥmūd Al-Masʻadī: Witnessing Immortality -- 4 The Survival of Gamal Al-Ghitany -- 5 Ibrahim Al-Koni: Writing and Sacrifice -- 6 Tahar Ouettar: The Saint and the Nightmare of History -- Epilogue: Bahaa Taher, Solidarity and Idealism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index