Adapting the Historical Event in Noor Khudhur Khan by the Novelist Jabir Khalifa Jabir

Abstract

This study seeks to explore the methods of adapting the historical event in the Iraqi novelist Jabir Khalifa Jabir’s Noor Khudhur Khan. The research proposes four approaches to reveal the manifestations of historical event adaptation in this novel, namely:

• Artistic adaptation of the historical event.
• Ideological adaptation of the historical event.
• Social adaptation of the historical event.
• Adapting the event to contemporary reality.

Through these forms of adaptation, the study was able to discern the vision driving the author in his novel, a vision through which he attempts to construct or reshape historical events according to its requirements. The primary artistic tool for this vision is adaptation. The author neither attempts nor claims to document events of the past; rather, he seeks to express his stance toward the past through a set of artistic, ideological, and social procedures imposed by the nature of the vision he adopts. Additionally, he strives to create a state of harmony resembling an overlap between past and present, examining how the latter is influenced by the former or how the past can be utilized to meet the necessities of understanding the present.