FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, NOVEMBER 1993
Copyright © 1983 by Naguib Mahfouz
English translation copyright © 1992 by The American University in Cairo Press
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. The English translation was first published by the American University in Cairo Press in 1992. First published in Arabic in 1983 as Rihlat ibn Fattuma. The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with The American University in Cairo Press. The Journey of Ibn Fattouma was originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1992.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maḥfūẓ Najīb, 1912– .
[Riḥāt Ibn Faṭṭūmah. English]
The journey of Ibn Fattouma / Naguib Mahfouz : translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.—1st Anchor Books Ed.
p. cm.
1. Middle East—Fiction. I. Title.
PJ7846.A46R513 1993
892′.736—dc20
93-2041
ISBN 9780385423342
eBook ISBN 9780525431602
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