The postcolonial crescent Islam's impact on contemporary literature / edited by John C. Hawley.
| Other author | Hawley, John C. (John Charles), 1947- |
| Other author | EBSCO Publishing (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : P. Lang, |
| Description | 291 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Humanities International Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 97017131 |
| ISBN | 0820437948 (alk. paper) |
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