تحولات النثر القصصي في العصر المملوكي: مقاربة سوسيو- سياسية في الأنساق والدلالات

Abstract:

This study aims to explore the Transformations of Narrative Prose during the Mamluk era through a Socio-Political approach, seeking to transcend traditional critical judgments that limited the literature of this period to stagnation. The research problem lies in monitoring the gap between aesthetic formation (verbal ornamentation) and the critical function and hidden paradigms passed by the Mamluk writer as a strategy for maneuvering and symbolic resistance against the incoming military authority. The study adopted the Descriptive-Analytical method, integrated with the data of Cultural Criticism and the Sociology of Literature, to deconstruct the structure of Maqamat, symbolic fables, and folk biographies. The research reached significant results, most notably that Mamluk prose was a living prose that invested in the rhetoric of masks and animal symbolism to pass intellectual positions towards tyranny and administrative corruption. It also succeeded in representing the marginalized classes and depicting the moral and social shifts produced by socio-economic crises, confirming that this narrative achievement paved the way for the emergence of modern Arabic fiction.

Keywords: Mamluk prose, political patterns, social representation, maqama, rhetoric of masks.