Manifestations of Dialogism in Ahl - al-Kahaf of Tofigh al-Hakim

Literature is a form of communication and each literary work is in the form of dialogue with other preceding and succeeding works of art which creates a dialogic relation. In dialogue or dialogic relation, there must be a second person to initiate the first speech for which the second voice is a response. Therefore, different voices are heard along with the dialogic quality of a work of art. The primary concern of the present article is to demonstrate and examine the dialogic qualities and possibilities of Tofigh al-Hakim's works, the Egyptian playwright, notably his masterpiece Ahl al-Kahaf, focusing on aspects such as polyphony, interextuality as well as the effects of native culture, the holy Quran, on it.