Be Like Adam's Son

Fernanda Fischione is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2024) at Sapienza University of Rome - Universite Internationale de Rabat, with the project Transnational Maghreb and the International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Pluralism, inclusiveness, and peaceful coexistence in the contemporary Maghrebi novel. Arturo Monaco is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2025) at Sapienza University of Rome - American University of Beirut, with the project Digital Mythology and Arabic Literature: A Digital Archive to Study the Dynamics of the Reception of Greek Myths in Modern Arabic Literature. Fernanda Fischione is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral fellow (2021-2024) at Sapienza University of Rome - Universite Internationale de Rabat, with the project Transnational Maghreb and the International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Pluralism, inclusiveness, and peaceful coexistence in the contemporary Maghrebi novel. Arturo Monaco is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2025) at Sapienza University of Rome - American University of Beirut, with the project Digital Mythology and Arabic Literature: A Digital Archive to Study the Dynamics of the Reception of Greek Myths in Modern Arabic Literature.

Preface
Isabella Camera d’Afflitto, Sapienza University of Rome
Introduction
Fernanda Fischione and Arturo Monaco

Part 1. Theorising Peace and Nonviolence
1. From Jihad ‘Until the Day of Resurrection’ to Nonviolence: The Debate on War and Peace in the Mid-1960s Post-Nahḍah Arab Generation
Paola Pizzi, Sapienza University of Rome/EPHE
2. Kun ka-ibn Ādam: Nonviolence and Qur’anic Interpretation in Awdat Saʿīd’s Thought
Pietro Menghini, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples

Part 2. From Literature of War to Literature of Reconciliation
3. The Iran-Iraq War in Iraqi Novels: Oblivion and Disappearance
Ronen Zeidel, Tel Aviv University
4. The Painful Path towards Civil Liberties and Social Justice Followed by the Iraqi Ḥayāt Šarārah
Elvira Diana, Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara
5. Pluralism and Ethno-Religious Identities in Iraqi Fiction: ʿAbdullāh Ṣaḫī’s Trilogy on Thawra City
Antonio Pacifico, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 / Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
6. In Quest of the Virtuous City: Coexistence and In-/Hospitality in Ali Bader’s ʿĀzif al-ġuyūm
Annamaria Bianco, Aix-Marseille Universite – IREM AM
7. Literature as a Mirror: The Search for Peace and Pacification in Moroccan Society as Depicted in Banāt al-ṣubbār (2018) by Karīmah Aḥdād
Paola Viviani,Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta
8. Youssef Fadel’s Trilogy: Testifying Violence to Negotiate Peace in Moroccan Literature
Cristina Dozio,Università degli Studi di Milano

Part 3. Practices of Mediation
9. Lā tuṣāliḥ in the Sīrat al-Zīr Sālim: A Hymn to Long-term Peace
Daniela Potenza, Università degli Studi di Messina
10. Twofold Slavery: Slave in Malta, Slave to Love of his Beloved Master: The Peaceful Letter a Muslim sent to Baldassarre Loyola Mandes S.J. (1631-1667)
Federico Stella, University of Naples L’Orientale
11. Peace and Justice. A Catholic Palestinian Response to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Paolo Maggiolini, Catholic University of Milan
12. A Thousand and One Jordans: The Story of Rafedìn
Odetta Pizzingrilli, University of Macerata