Children of Gebelawi (alternative title: Children of the Alley; transliterated Arabic: Awlad Haratina) is a novel by the Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

It was originally published in Arabic in 1959 and was serialised in the Cairo daily Al-Ahram. An English translation by Philip Stewart was published in 1981; Peter Theroux has since done another translation, which was published in 1996.

It was this book that earned Naguib Mahfouz a fatwa from Omar Abdul-Rahman , condemning the author for apostasy. As a result, in 1994 – some 35 years after the fatwa was issued – Mahfouz was attacked and stabbed in the neck by two extremists outside his Cairo home.

The story is an allegory of the history of the monotheistic religions, wherein the stories of Cain and Abel, Jesus, Moses, and Muhammad are retold against the setting of an imaginary alley – the book is divided into four parts and Islam is not the last.

Editions in print

• ISBN 0894106546 Children of Gebelawi (Stewart's translation)
• ISBN 0385420943 Children of the Alley (Theroux's translation)