The postcolonial crescent : Islam's impact on contemporary literature / edited by John C. Hawley.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
P. Lang,
[1998], ©1998.
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| Physical Description: | 291 pages ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : contemporary Islamic encounters with the printed word / John C. Hawley
- What is a Muslim? / Akeel Bilgrami
- Artistic creativity in Islamic contexts / Mohammed Arkoun ; trans. Susan Petit
- The dichotomy of Islam and modernity in the fiction of Naguib Mahfouz / Rasheed El-Enany
- Islam and the literature of controversy / Anouar Majid
- Feminist expression as self-identity and cultural critique : the discourse of Doria Shafik / Cynthia Nelson
- Ayyam min hayati : the prison memoirs of a Muslim sister [Zaynab al-Ghazali] / Miriam Cooke
- Subverting holy scriptures : the short stories of Yûsuf Idrîs / Renate Wise
- Gender, postcolonial subject, and the Lebanese civil war in Sitt Marie Rose / Sabah Ghandour
- Islam and Afrocentricity / Ali A. Mazrui
- Marabout-masters : maraboutism and the problem of education in the Senegalise novel / Debra Boyd-Buggs
- The impact of Islam on modern Bengali poetry / Syed Ali Ashraf
- The mirage of faith and justice : some sociopolitical and cultural themes in post-colonial Urdu short stories / Habibeh Rahim
- The changing mode of relationship between modern Persian literature and Islam : Karbala in fiction / Kamran Talattof
- Immigrant Muslim writers in Germany / Georg Stoll.