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From ancient days, Human being has been searching for the Creator in the existence, and has asked several questions regarding the cause of his/her existence in this world and about his/her futurity.
Najib Mahfouz in his novel, «road», searches for the God and talks about numerous questions related to destiny of defenseless miserable human and takes the name of «Saber» as the hero of his novel, which stands for Holy patience. Also «Sayyed Sayyed Rahimi» is a symbol of God, because Allah is the Master and he is the master of humans.
The novel begins and ends in a symbolic perspective and it is the philosophical frame which enables Najib Mahfouz using intertextuality.
In this article, internal and external Quran intertextuality has been studied. We try to analyze purpose of the author from using Quran intertextuality and symbols in the dialectic of search for God in this novel. Research method of this article is descriptive-analytical approach that is based on summoning the absent text in the novel of road.
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