Implicit Cultural Patterns in Ahmed Ibrahim El-FekiH's Trilogy – A Descriptive and Analytical Study

Abstract

The Arabic novel is no longer just a story to be told, but has transformed into a space teeming with conflicting cultural systems, where battles over identity, body, and belonging are manifested in symbolic images and troubled characters. In this context, this research attempts to read a group of Arabic novelistic texts through critical theory Cultural to reveal the hidden patterns and cultural representations that frame behavior and reproduce authoritarian values under the cover of narrative. The body is a cultural battlefield, as the novel shows that the body is not a purely biological entity, but rather a sacred and profane battlefield, between religion and desire, between purity and pleasure. The narrator often feels guilty not because he made a mistake, but because he desired. This, in turn, indicates a system. A culture that criminalizes desire and classifies pleasure as a sin. The body in the novel is not lived, but rather observed and held accountable.