Title Religious perspectives in modern Muslim and Jewish literatures / edited by Glenda Abramson and Hilary Kilpatrick

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 325 pages) Series Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures ; 8 RoutledgeCurzon studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern literatures. Contents Chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 Modern Arabic literature and the Qur'an: inimitability creativity ... incompatibility / SHAWKAT M. TOORAWA -- chapter 2 'BLESS EACH DAY THAT PASSES': The search for religious faith in the poetry of Itamar Yaoz-Kest -- chapter 3 PATHS TO GOD WITHIN THE POET: Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904-83) and his mystical poetry -- chapter 4 'MERCIFUL FATHER ABRAHAM': The mystical poetry of Binyamin Shvili -- chapter 5 MORAL EDUCATION THROUGH ISLAMIC SONGS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY JAVA -- chapter 6 'Together with the shell, they have thrown away the kernel': Aaron Halle- Wolfssohn's critique of contemporary Judaism -- chapter 7 THE UZBEK SHORT STORY WRITER FITRAT'S ADAPTATION OF RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS -- chapter 8 KULTURKAMPF IN THE ISRAELI THEATRE: The issue of religion -- chapter 9 RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY PERSIAN PROSE -- chapter 10 MARTYRDOM AND GENDER IN JEWISH-AMERICAN HOLOCAUST MEMORY -- chapter 11 A 'CINDERELLA' GOES TO HAUSALAND: Islam, gender and Hausa literature -- chapter 12 RAHEL MORPURGO IN THE CONTEXT OF JEWISH EMANCIPATION IN ITALY -- chapter 13 MODERN ARABIC LITERATURE AND THE QUR'AN: Inimitability, creativity ... incompatibility -- chapter 14 AVROM GOLDFADEN'S THEATRE OF JEWISHNESS: Three prooftexts -- chapter 15 TRANSCENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF ISLAM: Written Swahili literature in the twentieth century -- chapter 16 BETWEEN EROS AND DIOS: Leopoldo Azancot's Novia judía Summary "This book brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama." "The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literature. Key topics such as religious ideas and teachings, aspects of mysticism, the tenets of religion, uses made of sacred texts, religion and popular culture and reflections of religious controversies are covered. While there is an embodied comparative element to the chapters, the essays are not confined by comparisons and cover a wide range of the literary expression of religious issues."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Islamic literature -- History and criticism. Jewish literature -- History and criticism Literature, Modern -- Muslim authors -- History and criticism Literature, Modern -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism Religion in literature. RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts. Islamic literature Jewish literature Literature, Modern -- Jewish authors Religion in literature Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Abramson, Glenda, 1938- Kilpatrick, Hilary ISBN 0203337360 9780203337363

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