"Ancestors and Successors" Between Power and Freedom Narrative Formations in Ibrahim Al-Koni's Epic: A Critical Introduction

Al-Koni established the "Ancestors and Successors" Epic upon the history of Qurmanli's family that ruled Libya at the period of (1711-1835) for about 125 years, through 5 generations starting from Ahmed Al-Qurmanli's ending with Ali Ben Yusuf Al-Qurmanli. The man dealt with this historical era through the struggle of power with its three pillars (throne, money and women) in exchange for freedom that means traveling to the desert people with its signs of surrender, asceticism and abandonment, and triumphs in its entirety for the teachings of the desert. About this conflict (controversy of power and freedom) revolves the epic events in its six parts.
The chapter deals with the criticism keys of the epic, represented in the dream technique in " Calling what is far away ", the mystical vision in " In a Place That We Inhabit, In a Time That Inhabits Us ", the struggle of the enemy brothers in "Jacob and his sons", consonant with the Torah and its projection on the events of " Cain where's your brother Abel? ", the final preparation of the epic in" Joseph without his brothers ", and finally with the Mediterranean Iliad, which adopted the multiplicity of narrators in" Southwest Trojan, Southeast of Carthage".