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The postcolonial crescent : Islam's impact on contemporary literature

Title
The postcolonial crescent : Islam's impact on contemporary literature / edited by John C. Hawley.
Publication
New York : P. Lang, c1998.

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Additional Authors
Hawley, John C. (John Charles), 1947-
Description
291 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Islam and literature
  • Islam in literature
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
*OGC 98-9110
ISBN
0820437948 (alk. paper)
LCCN
97017131 //r98
OCLC
36865610
Title
The postcolonial crescent : Islam's impact on contemporary literature / edited by John C. Hawley.
Imprint
New York : P. Lang, c1998.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Hawley, John C. (John Charles), 1947-
Research Call Number
*OGC 98-9110
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