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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

English literature --- Islam and literature --- Muslims in literature. --- Muslims --- Literature and Islam --- Literature --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Islam --- History and criticism. --- History --- Ethnic identity. --- Muslims in literature --- History and criticism --- Ethnic identity --- English literature - History and criticism --- Islam and literature - History - 21st century --- Muslims - Ethnic identity --- Islam and literature - History - 20th century

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The fifteen chapters in this volume explore both new and tested theoretical perspectives on literature and culture at large; this multiplicity of discourses is a reflection of the implicit discontent in conforming to the New World Order, and a contestation against hierarchical relationships between countries, which inform the social, cultural and political climates of weaker nations. Other the political and economic hegemony of stronger nations, weaker nations run the risk of being dominated, ...

Literature and globalization --- Literature and society --- Islam and literature --- Literature, Modern --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Literature and Islam --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Globalization and literature --- Globalization --- History --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Social aspects --- Culture

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This book explores whether the post-9/11 novels of Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie can be read as part of an attempt to revise modern ‘knowledge’ of the Islamic world, using globally-distributed English-language literature to reframe Muslims’ potential to connect with others. Focussing on novels including Shalimar the Clown, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, The Wasted Vigil, and Burnt Shadows, the author combines aesthetic, historical, political and spiritual considerations with analyses of the popular discourses and critical discussions surrounding the novels; and scrutinises how the writers have been appropriated as authentic spokespeople by dominant political and cultural forces. Finally, she explores how, as writers of Indian and Pakistani origin, Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie negotiate their identities, and the tensions of being seen to act as Muslim representatives, in relation to the complex international and geopolitical context in which they write. .

Pakistani fiction (English) --- English fiction --- American fiction --- Muslim authors --- Islam in literature --- Muslims in literature --- Islam and literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism --- Political and social views --- Islam in literature. --- Muslims in literature. --- Islam and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Political and social views. --- Literature and Islam --- Authors, Islamic --- Authors, Muslim --- Islamic authors --- Literature --- Islamic literature --- American literature --- English literature --- Pakistani literature (English) --- Literature   . --- British literature. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Oriental literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Cultural Theory. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Asian Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Asian literature --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Pakistani fiction (English) - History and criticism --- English fiction - Muslim authors - History and criticism --- American fiction - Muslim authors - History and criticism --- Muslim authors - Political and social views --- Rushdie, Salman --- Hamid, Mohsin, - 1971 --- -Aslam, Nadeem, - 1966 --- -Shamsie, Kamila, - 1973 --- -Literature   .

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This book explores the ways in which discourses of religious, racial, and national identity blur and engage each other in the medieval West. Specifically, the book studies depictions of Muslims in England during the 1330s and argues that these depictions, although historically inaccurate, served to enhance and advance assertions of English national identity at this time. The book examines Saracen characters in a manuscript renowned for the variety of its texts, and discusses hagiographic legends, elaborations of chronicle entries, and popular romances about Charlemagne, Arthur, and various Eng

English literature --- Islam and literature --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- Romances, English --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Saracens in literature. --- Crusades in literature. --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- English romances --- Literature and Islam --- Literature --- Islamic civilization --- Islamic influences. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Manuscripts. --- Auchinleck manuscript. --- Islamic Empire --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- Foreign public opinion, English. --- In literature. --- National characteristics [English ] in literature --- Manuscripts [English ] (Middle) --- Saracens in literature --- Crusades in literature --- Auchinleck manuscript

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Timur (or Tamerlane) is famous as the fourteenth-century conqueror of much of Central Eurasia and the founder of the Timurid dynasty. His reputation lived on in his native lands and reappeared some three centuries after his death in the form of fictional biographies, authored anonymously in Persian and Turkic. These biographies have become part of popular culture. Despite a direct continuity in their production from the eighteenth century to the present, they remain virtually unknown to people outside the region. This remarkable and rigorous scholarly appraisal of the legendary biographies of Tamerlane is the first of its kind in any language. The book sheds light not only on the character of Tamerlane and how he was remembered and championed by many generations after his demise, but also on the era in which the biographies were written and how they were conceived and received by the local populace during an age of crisis in their own history.

Biography as a literary form. --- Biography --- Heroes in literature. --- Islam and literature --- Popular culture --- History --- Social aspects --- Middle East --- General. --- Timur, --- In literature. --- Influence. --- Asia, Central --- Intellectual life. --- Centraal-Azië --- BPB1302 --- Islam --- Asie centrale --- střední Asie --- Osrednja Azija --- Централна Азия --- Közép-Ázsia --- Asja Ċentrali --- Keski-Aasia --- Asia Centrală --- Central Asia --- Zentralasien --- Asia centrale --- Централна Азија --- Centrālāzija --- Stredná Ázia --- Kesk-Aasia --- Ásia Central --- Asia central --- Centralasien --- Azia Qendrore --- Azja Środkowa --- srednja Azija --- Centrinė Azija --- Κεντρική Ασία --- islám --- ισλαμισμός --- Iżlam --- islamas --- islams --- islamismo --- islam --- iszlám --- ислям --- ислам --- mahomedanism --- islamism --- moslimský veriaci --- islámské náboženství --- sunita --- islámská církev --- mohammedanisme --- šíita --- mohamedanizmus --- muslimi --- muhamedanisme --- mohamedánstvo --- Mohammedanism --- muhameedlus --- suna --- muhamedānisms --- muslimské náboženství --- muhamettilaisuus --- mahometonybė --- mešita --- Muhamedanizëm --- Timur Lenk --- Literature and Islam --- Literature --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Authorship --- Prose literature --- Biographies --- Life histories --- Memoirs --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Genealogy --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Aksak Timur, --- Amir Temur, --- Amir Temur Kuragon, --- Amīr Tīmūr, --- Amir Timur Beg, --- Lenk Tʻimur, --- Taimūr, --- Tamberlain, --- Tamburlaine, --- Tamerlan, --- Tamerlane, --- Tamerlano, --- Teĭmurlănġ, --- Temur, --- Timour, --- Timoûr-i-lènk, --- Timur-lank, --- Timurlenk, --- Амир Темур, --- Амир Темур Курагон, --- Аксак Тимур, --- Тимур, --- Темур, --- تيمور --- تيمور، --- تمور --- Soviet Central Asia --- Tūrān --- Turkestan --- West Turkestan --- Asia --- Ioslam --- An Áise Láir --- Arts and Humanities