''Al-jarima'' (الجريمة "The Crime") is a 1973 collection of short stories and a short play by

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

. The collection contains both crime and absurdist stories.

Rasheed El-Enany Rasheed El-Enany (born 1949) is an Egyptian literary scholar, who specializes in modern Arabic literature. He is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, and Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. ...

, ''Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning'', 2003, p.209 113490584X "In retrospect, The Crime was largely to mark the end of the absurdist connection in Mahfouz's career.51 After The Crime there was to be a lull in the publication of short stories for a period of about five years, during which Mahfouz produced five ."

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Short story collections by Naguib Mahfouz Works by Naguib Mahfouz 1973 short story collections Crime short story collections {{1970s-story-collection-stub