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Respected Sir

Naguib Mahfouz
Chapters (47)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgment
  6. Translator’s Introduction
  7. ONE
  8. TWO
  9. THREE
  10. FOUR
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. TWENTY-ONE
  28. TWENTY-TWO
  29. TWENTY-THREE
  30. TWENTY-FOUR
  31. TWENTY-FIVE
  32. TWENTY-SIX
  33. TWENTY-SEVEN
  34. TWENTY-EIGHT
  35. TWENTY-NINE
  36. THIRTY
  37. THIRTY-ONE
  38. THIRTY-TWO
  39. THIRTY-THREE
  40. THIRTY-FOUR
  41. THIRTY-FIVE
  42. THIRTY-SIX
  43. THIRTY-SEVEN
  44. THIRTY-EIGHT
  45. About the Author
  46. Other Titles
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Cover

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Title Page

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Copyright

AN ANCHOR BOOK

PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY

A division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10103

ANCHOR BOOKS, DOUBLEDAY, and the portrayal of an anchor are trademarks of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

This English translation was originally published in Great Britain by Quartet Books Limited, a member of the Namara Group, in 1986.

The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Quartet Books Limited.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911–

[Ḥaḍrat al-muḥtaram. English]

Respected sir / Naguib Mahfouz; translated by Rasheed El-Enany. —1st Doubleday ed.

p.      cm.

Translation of: Ḥaḍrat al-muḥtaram.

I. Title.

PJ7846.A46H2413    1990      89-25703

892′.736—dc20

ISBN 0-385-26479-8

ISBN 0-385-26480-1 (pbk.)

eBook ISBN 9780525431671

Copyright © 1975 by Naguib Mahfouz

Translation copyright © 1986 by Dr. Rasheed El-Enany

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION: AUGUST 1990

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Dedication

For Wafaa, Sonia, and Nadine

Acknowledgment

I am deeply grateful to my colleague Mr. G. Balfour-Paul CMG, for his meticulous and painstaking revision of my translation, a task which he undertook with the patience and thoroughness of a scholar coupled with a poet’s sensitivity for words.

Translator’s Introduction

With eleven novels including the present one to his name in English translation,1 one collection of short stories,2 two full-fledged studies of his work in book form, an increasing number of doctoral theses, and an enormous number of articles in literary and academic periodicals (all in English), Naguib Mahfouz can rightfully claim the title of the best-known and most studied Arab novelist in the English-speaking world. This is hardly surprising, as Mahfouz enjoys a similar status in his own language, in which he has been by far the most popular serious novelist, not only in his native Egypt but all over the Arabic-speaking world, all his novels having seen several reprintings in different editions.

Born in 1911, he is the grand old man of Arabic fiction, enjoying the affection and reverence of both critics and a vast reading public. He published his first novel in 1939 and since that date has written thirty-two novels and thirteen collections of short stories. In his old age he has maintained his prolific output, producing a novel a year.