Children of Gebelawi (alternative title: Children of the Alley; transliterated Arabic: Awlad Haratina) is a novel by the Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual... Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ ) (born December 11, 1911) is an Egyptian novelist. ...

It was originally published in Arabic in 1959 in serialised form in the Cairo daily Al-Ahram. An English translation by Philip Stewart was published in 1981 and is still in print; when Stewart refused to sell his copyright, Doubleday commissioned a new version by Peter Theroux. Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Although technically in Giza, The Great Pyramids have become a symbol of Cairo internationally Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; transliterated: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ... Al-Ahram, founded in 1875, is the oldest daily newspaper in the Arab world. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

It was this book that earned Naguib Mahfouz condemnation from Omar Abdul-Rahman in 1989, after the Nobel Prize had revived interest in it. As a result, in 1994 – a day after the anniversary of the prize – Mahfouz was attacked and stabbed in the neck by two extremists outside his Cairo home. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman / Umar Abd al-Rahman / the ‘Blind Sheikh’ was convicted in 1996 with several others for conspiring to bomb a number of New York City landmarks. ...

The story recreates the history of the monotheistic Abrahamic religions, allegorised against the setting of an imaginary Cairene alley. The first four sections retell, in succession, the stories of Adam (and his sons), Moses, Jesus and Muhammad; the protagonist of the book's fifth section (who, significantly, comes after the Prophet of Islam) symbolises modern science. Monotheism (in Greek μόνος = single and θεός = God) is the belief in a single, universal, all-encompassing deity. ... // In the study of comparative religion, an Abrahamic religion is any of those religions deriving from a common ancient Semitic tradition and traced by their adherents to Abraham (אַבְרָהָם Father/Leader of many), a patriarch whose life is narrated in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and in the Quran. ... This article is about the biblical Adam and Eve. ... Moses or Moshe (מֹשֶׁה, Standard Hebrew , Tiberian Hebrew , Syriac ܡܘܫܐ , Arabic موسى , Ethiopic ሙሴ Musse, Latin ), son of Amram (Imran in Arabic) and his wife, Jochebed, a Levite. ... Jesus, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus the Nazarene, is the central figure of Christianity, in which context he is known as Jesus Christ (from Greek Ιησούς Χριστός) with Christ being a title meaning Anointed One or Messiah. According to traditional Christian faith, Jesus is both the Son of God... This article is about the prophet. ... ▶ (help· info) (Arabic: الإسلام; al- islām, the submission to God) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions and the worlds second-largest religion. ...

Editions in print

• ISBN 0894106546 Children of Gebelawi (Stewart's translation)
• ISBN 0385420943 Children of the Alley (Theroux's translation)