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Islamic postcolonialism
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ISBN: 9781443883214 1443883212 9781443876308 1443876305 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Islamic postcolonialism is a theoretical perspective that combines two components which have up until now existed in a state of tension. As a secular theory, postcolonialism has notably failed to account for Muslim priorities; it has, for instance, had severe problems critiquing the anti-Islam polemics of The Satanic Verses, as is evidenced by Edward Said's support for Rushdie, in spite of his criticism of the stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims in the West.Islamic postcolonialism applies the anti-colonial resistant methodology of postcolonialism from a Muslim perspective, explor


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Islamophobia and the novel
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ISBN: 9780231541336 0231541333 9780231177740 0231177747 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York

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In an era of rampant Islamophobia, what do literary representations of Muslims and anti-Muslim bigotry tell us about changing concepts of cultural difference? In Islamophobia and the Novel, Peter Morey analyzes how recent works of fiction have framed and responded to the rise of anti-Muslim prejudice, showing how their portrayals of Muslims both reflect and refute the ideological preoccupations of media and politicians in the post-9/11 West.Islamophobia and the Novel discusses novels embodying a range of positions--from the avowedly secular to the religious, and from texts that appear to underwrite Western assumptions of cultural superiority to those that recognize and critique neoimperial impulses. Morey offers nuanced readings of works by John Updike, Ian McEwan, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Mohsin Hamid, John le Carré, Khaled Hosseini, Azar Nafisi, and other writers, emphasizing the demands of the literary marketplace for representations of Muslims. He explores how depictions of Muslim experience have challenged liberal assumptions regarding the novel's potential for empathy and its ability to encompass a variety of voices. Morey argues for a greater degree of critical self-consciousness in our understanding of writing by and about Muslims, in contrast to both exclusionary nationalism and the fetishization of difference. Contemporary literature's capacity to unveil the conflicted nature of anti-Muslim bigotry expands our range of resources to combat Islamophobia. This, in turn, might contribute to Islamophobia's eventual dismantling.


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Sufism and American literary maste
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ISBN: 143845354X 9781438453545 1438453531 9781438453538 Year: 2014 Publisher: Albany, New York : SUNY Press,

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Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.


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Writing Muslim identity
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ISBN: 1472542908 1280123729 9786613527585 1441117296 9781441117298 9781441124364 1441124365 9781441136664 1441136665 9781472542908 9781441158505 1441158502 Year: 2012 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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The relationship between Islam and the West is one of the most urgent and hotly debated issues of our time. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive overview of the way in which Muslims are represented within modern English writing, ranging from the novel, through memoir and travel writing to journalism. Covering a wide range of texts and authors, it scrutinises the identity 'Muslim' by looking at its inscription in recent and contemporary literary writing within the context of significant events like the Rushdie Affair and 9/11. Examining the wide range of writing internationally that takes Islam or Islamic cultures as its focus, the author discusses the representation of Muslim identity in writing by non-Muslim writers, former Muslim 'native informants', and practising Muslims

Muslim narratives and the discourse of English
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ISBN: 1423743660 9781423743668 0791463052 9780791463055 0791463060 9780791463062 0791483959 Year: 2004 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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"This is the first book to explore the works of Muslim authors who write in English yet take their inspiration from Islam. Through close readings of novels and short stories by Salman Rushdie, Ahmed Ali, Attia Hosain, Nuruddin Farah, and others, Amin Malak reveals their aesthetic and discursive merits as well as their idiomatic and metaphorical enrichment of the English language. He explores the many implications of writing about one culture (and language) from within another, including the ambivalent attitudes many of these writers have toward English, a language associated with a colonial past yet adopted as a medium of artistic expression and a critical tool for demystifying and dealienating Muslims and their culture. Malak's analysis shows how Islam, as a critical identity signifier in the contemporary world, informs these texts' discursive foundations and thus becomes crucial for understanding Islam."--Jacket.


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Women's writing and Muslim societies : the search for dialogue, 1920-present
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ISBN: 1299201377 0708325416 9780708325414 0708325394 9780708325391 0708325408 9780708325407 9781783165414 1783165413 9780708325391 9780708325407 9781299201378 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press,

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An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.

Power in the portrayal
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ISBN: 1282087630 9786612087639 1400825245 9781400825240 9780691001876 0691001871 069114673X Year: 2002 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period. Employing the methods of the new historical literary study in looking at a range of texts, Ross Brann reveals the paradoxical relations between the Andalusi Muslim and Jewish elites in an era when long periods of tolerance and respect were punctuated by outbreaks of tension and hostility. The examined Arabic texts reveal a fragmented perception of the Jew in eleventh-century al-Andalus. They depict seemingly contradictory figures at whose poles are an intelligent, skilled, and noble Jew deserving of homage and a vile, stupid, and fiendish enemy of God and Islam. For their part, the Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic texts display a deep-seated reluctance to portray Muslims in any light at all. Brann cogently demonstrates that these representations of Jews and Muslims--each of which is concerned with issues of sovereignty and the exercise of power--reflect the shifting, fluctuating, and ambivalent relations between elite members of two of the ethno-religious communities of al-Andalus. Brann's accessible prose is enriched by his splendid translations; the original texts are also included. This book is the first to study the construction of social meaning in Andalusi Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, and Hebrew literary texts and historical chronicles. The novel approach illuminates nuances of respect, disinterest, contempt, and hatred reflected in the relationship between Muslims and Jews in medieval Spain.

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Muslims in literature. --- Jews in literature. --- Judaism and literature --- Jews --- Arabic literature --- Middle Eastern literature --- North African literature --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Literature and Judaism --- Literature --- Intellectual life. --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalousie (Spain) --- Andalusien (Spain) --- Autonomous Community of Andalusia (Spain) --- Communauté autonome d'Andalousie (Spain) --- Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía (Spain) --- Baetica (Spain) --- Junta de Andalucía (Spain) --- Andalus (Spain) --- Bética --- Al-Andalus --- Ethnic relations. --- Jews in literature --- Muslims in literature --- 296 <460> --- 296*812 --- 297 <460> --- 933.73 --- 946.02 <093> --- 933.73 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: diaspora in Spanje, Portugal, Zuid-Frankrijk --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: diaspora in Spanje, Portugal, Zuid-Frankrijk --- 296*812 Jodendom en antisemitisme--in de moderne tijd (voor 1933) --- Jodendom en antisemitisme--in de moderne tijd (voor 1933) --- 946.02 <093> Geschiedenis van Spanje: Arabische suprematie--(711-1479)--Historische bronnen --- Geschiedenis van Spanje: Arabische suprematie--(711-1479)--Historische bronnen --- Jewish authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- History --- Judaïsme. Jodendom--Spanje --- Islam. Mohammedanisme--Spanje

Othello and interpretive traditions
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ISBN: 1587292971 9781587292972 0877456852 9780877456858 Year: 1999 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

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During the past twenty years or so, Othello has become the Shakespearean tragedy that speaks most powerfully to our contemporary concerns. Focusing on race and gender (and on class, ethnicity, sexuality, and nationality), the play talks about what audiences want to talk about. Yet at the same time, as refracted through Iago, it forces us to hear what we do not want to hear; like the characters in the play, we become trapped in our own prejudicial malice and guilt.

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Muslims in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Drama --- Negroes in literature --- Shakespeare, William, --- Shakespeare, William --- Shakespear, William, --- Shakspeare, William, --- Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, --- Saixpēr, Gouilliam, --- Shakspere, William, --- Shikisbīr, Wilyam, --- Szekspir, Wiliam, --- Šekspyras, --- Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Šekspir, Viljem, --- Tsikinya-chaka, --- Sha-shih-pi-ya, --- Shashibiya, --- Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Syeiksŭpʻio, --- Shekspir, V. --- Szekspir, William, --- Shakespeare, Guglielmo, --- Shake-speare, William, --- Sha-ō, --- Şekspir, --- Shekspir, Uiliam, --- Shekspir, U. --- Šekspir, Vilijam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, --- Shakspir, --- Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, --- Şekspir, Velyam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, --- Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, --- Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspir, --- Shakespeare, --- Śeksper, --- Шекспир, Вильям, --- Шекспир, Уильям, --- שייקספיר, וויליאם, --- שייקספיר, וו., --- שיקספיר, וויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, וילים, --- שכספיר, ו׳ --- שעפקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, וויליאם --- שעקספיער, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, ווילליאם --- שעקספיער, וו., --- שעקספיר --- שעקספיר, וו --- שעקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיר, וויליאמ --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם, --- שעקספיר, וו., --- שעקספיר, װיליאם, --- שעקספיר, װילליאם, --- שעקספיר, װ., --- שעקספער --- שעקספער, וויליאמ --- שקספיר --- שקספיר, וו --- שקספיר, וויליאם --- שקספיר, וויליאם, --- שקספיר, ווילים, --- שקספיר, וילאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם, --- שקספיר, ויליים, --- שקספיר, וילים --- שקספיר, וילים, --- شاكسبير، وليم --- شاكسپير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليام --- شكسبير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليم، --- شكسبير، و. --- شكسپير، وليم --- شكسپير، ويليام --- شيكسبير، وليام --- شيكسبير، وليام.، --- شيكسبير، وليم --- شکسبير، وليم --- وليم شکسبير --- 沙士北亞威廉姆, --- 沙士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉, --- 莎士比亞, --- Boito, Arrigo, --- Verdi, Giuseppe, --- Geach, Ken. --- Criticism and interpretation --- History. --- Stage history. --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature.

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