| Description |
1 online resource (211 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface. A Cold But Fertile Ground / Leila Aboulela -- Introduction / Sadia Zulfiqar with Sumita Mukherjee -- British Journalists, British Muslims : Arguments for "A More Complex Picture" of their Relationship / Michael Munnik -- Deconstructing "Fundamentalism" in Three Pakistani Post-9/11 Novels / Daniel O'Gorman -- "Fighting the Need to be Normal" / Lenore Bell -- The Portrayal of Muslim Children in American Cinema post 9/11 / Kerem Bayraktaroğlu -- A Graphic Novel Response to the Iraq War from Turkey : Ayşegül Savaşta: Irak Sahını / Kenan Koçak -- Dante and Muhammad's Israh and Mi'Raj : "Eppure Si Muove" / Abdelkader El Mokhtar Boutaleb -- Women in Exile : Islam and Disempowerment in Fadia Faqir's My Name is Salma / Roxanne Ellen Bibizadeh -- Muslim Women's Literary Protest : Questioning Imperial Practices in the Western Discourse on Women's Rights and the "War on Terror" / Julia Arifeen -- Do Muslim Women Need Saving Again? : Representations of Islam in Leila Aboulela's Fiction / Sadia Zulfiqar -- Boundaries and Conversion in The King of Tars / Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh -- Epilogue. Say I Am You : A Love Story / Michael Ellison |
| Summary |
Islam, like the West, is not a homogenous monolith. However, Islam is most commonly represented in the West in terms of suicide bombing, suppressed and veiled women, and internal and external conflict. These depictions of Islam suggest that the relationship between Islam and the West is, and has always been, one of hostility and hatred. However, this collection locates threads of connection and 'love' between Islam and the West, and argues that it is important to bring them to the forefront i .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Muslims -- Western countries -- Congresses
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East and West -- Congresses
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Civilization, Western -- Islamic influences -- Congresses
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Islam -- History -- Congresses
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Islam.
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Reportage & collected journalism.
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Civilization, Western -- Islamic influences
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East and West
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Islam
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Muslims
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Western countries
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mukherjee, Sumita
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| ISBN |
9781443879170 |
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1443879177 |
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