خلاصة:
The categorization of novel types is done based on numerous and diverse criteria and components such as content, structure, time, place, character, and so on (or the prominence and centrality of one of them). One of these components (content) has given a special identity to novels that seriously address oil and related issues; to the extent that they can be said to have relative independence and cannot be definitively placed under known novel types, and perhaps a new title can be chosen for this type of novel. The authors, in this research, strive, relying on the "Theory of the Novel" and the rules of defining novel types, after analyzing and examining Nawal Al-Saadawi's novel *Love in the Time of Oil* (Al-Hubb fi Zaman al-Naft), to introduce a genre of novel, as "Oil Novel", as an independent genre, and to provide a definition of it based on novel theories. This research suggests that works containing components such as oil and related issues and consequences can be placed under the title "Oil Novel".
ملخص الجهاز:
Nawal Al-Saadawi and the Literary Genre of "Oil Novel" ∗ Ibrahim Mohammadi Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran ∗∗ Afat Faregh Master of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran ∗∗∗ Abdolrahim Haghdadi Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran (Received: 2012-11-12, Approved: 2013-02-23) Abstract The classification of novel types is done based on numerous and diverse criteria and components such as content, structure, time, place, character, etc.
” The authors strive, with regard to the second component (content) and also by examining and analyzing Nawal Al-Saadawi's novel *Love in the Time of Oil* (Al-Hubb fi Zaman al-Naft), to explain and introduce a new type of novel that seems to have oil and related issues as its main concern.
It should be noted that the authors, considering the structure and content of numerous novels that they have thoroughly examined and analyzed in a research entitled “'Oil Novel' in Persian and Arabic Literature Based on Ismail Fahih’s *A Whirlpool of Such* and Nawal Saadawi’s *Love in the Time of Oil*” (1391), as well as some other novels by Ismail Fahih, the later works of Reza Amirkhani, including *Scent of Oil* and...
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