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- catalog abstract "When the Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced the fatwa against the novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989, the world awoke to the question which unifies the fifteen essays in this volume: What is the contentious relationship between the world's fastest growing religion and an increasingly secular literary world? Recognizing the convergence between Islam's religious concerns and the political agenda it shares with many postcolonial emerging nations, noted international scholars address issues of authorization, the role of gender, and the pluralism among Islamic (and non-Arabic) cultures. After providing a historical context for current crises, the essayists discuss the coming cultural enrichment and potential threat.".
- catalog contributor b10719412.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "When the Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced the fatwa against the novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989, the world awoke to the question which unifies the fifteen essays in this volume: What is the contentious relationship between the world's fastest growing religion and an increasingly secular literary world? Recognizing the convergence between Islam's religious concerns and the political agenda it shares with many postcolonial emerging nations, noted international scholars address issues of authorization, the role of gender, and the pluralism among Islamic (and non-Arabic) cultures. After providing a historical context for current crises, the essayists discuss the coming cultural enrichment and potential threat.".
- catalog extent "291 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Postcolonial crescent.".
- catalog identifier "0820437948 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Postcolonial crescent.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Peter Lang,".
- catalog relation "Postcolonial crescent.".
- catalog spatial "Islamic countries.".
- catalog subject "809/.933897 21".
- catalog subject "Islam and literature.".
- catalog subject "Islam in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN605.I8 P67 1998".
- catalog subject "Postcolonialism Islamic countries.".
- catalog subject "Postcolonialism in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The postcolonial crescent : Islam's impact on contemporary literature / edited by John C. Hawley.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".