Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English
Title | Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English PDF eBook |
Author | Amin Malak |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2004-12-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780791463062 |
Examines novels and short stories by Muslim authors who write in English.
Conceiving Identities
Title | Conceiving Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn M. Kueny |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2013-11-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 143844785X |
Explores how medieval Muslim theologians constructed a female gender identity based on an ideal of maternity and how women contested it. Conceiving Identities explores how medieval Muslim theologians appropriate a womans reproductive power to construct a female gender identity in which maternity is a central component. Through a close analysis of seventh- through fourteenth-century exegetical works, medical treatises, legal pronouncements, historiographies, zoologies, and other literary materials, this study considers how medieval Muslim scholars map the female reproductive body according to broader, cosmological schemes to generate a womans role as mother. By close consideration of folk medicine and magic, this book also reveals how medieval women contest the traditional maternal identities imagined for them and thereby reinvent themselves as mothers and Muslims. This innovative examination of the discourse and practices surrounding maternity forges new ground as it takes up the historical and epistemic construction of medieval Muslim womens identities.
The Afterlife of al-Andalus
Title | The Afterlife of al-Andalus PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Civantos |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2017-11-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1438466714 |
Around the globe, concerns about interfaith relations have led to efforts to find earlier models in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus). This book examines how Muslim Iberia operates as an icon or symbol of identity in twentieth and twenty-first century narrative, drama, television, and film from the Arab world, Spain, and Argentina. Christina Civantos demonstrates how cultural agents in the present ascribe importance to the past and how dominant accounts of this importance are contested. Civantos's analysis reveals that, alongside established narratives that use al-Andalus to create exclusionary, imperial identities, there are alternate discourses about the legacy of al-Andalus that rewrite the traditional narratives. In the process, these discourses critique their imperial and gendered dimensions and pursue intercultural translation.
Muslim Voices in School
Title | Muslim Voices in School PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Brill / Sense |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9789087909550 |
"The essays in this book think through and with Deleuzian concepts in the educational field. The resultant encounters between concepts such as multiplicity, becoming, habit and affect and Multiple Literacies Theory exemplify philosophically inspired and productive thinking. "--Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Islam and Postcolonial Discourse
Title | Islam and Postcolonial Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Esra Mirze Santesso |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2017-01-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317112563 |
Largely, though not exclusively, as a legacy of the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Islamic faith has become synonymous in many corners of the media and academia with violence, which many believe to be its primary mode of expression. The absence of a sophisticated recognition of the wide range of Islamic subjectivities within contemporary culture has created a void in which misinterpretations and hostilities thrive. Responding to the growing importance of religion, specifically Islam, as a cultural signifier in the formation of a postcolonial self, this multidisciplinary collection is organized around contested terms such as secularism, Islamopolitics, female identity, and Islamophobia. The overarching goal of the contributors is to facilitate a deeper understanding of the full range of experiences within Islam as well as the figure of the Muslim, thus enabling a new set of questions about religion’s role in shaping postcolonial identity.
Representing Jihad
Title | Representing Jihad PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline O'Rourke |
Publisher | Zed Books Ltd. |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2012-08-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1780322658 |
The jihad has been at the centre of the West's securitization discourse for more than a decade. Theorists constantly use the jihadist as a discursive tool to further their neoliberal, military and market agendas, perpetuating massive gaps of understanding between 'the West', Muslims and jihadists themselves. They are helped by Muslim interlocutors, who all too often play the role of 'good' Muslims explaining the motifs of the 'bad' Muslims. This timely book argues that Muslim theory and fiction has been significantly commodified to cater to the needs of western ideology. It skillfully critiques the ideological contradictions of the debate around the jihadist by offering a comprehensive analysis of Muslim and non-Muslim cultural critics. Ranging from Edward Said to Slavoj Zizek, from Don DeLillo to Orhan Pamuk and from Mohammed Siddique Khan to Osama bin Laden, this vastly heterogeneous discourse produces a multi-dimensional Muslim response. O'Rourke examines some of its critical fault lines in postcolonial theory and literary analysis. This groundbreaking book argues that the temptation to appropriate the figure of the jihadist offers a fertile area from which to launch a discussion about the limits of current theory.
The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions PDF eBook |
Author | Waïl S. Hassan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 656 |
Release | 2017-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0199349800 |
The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject to date. In scope, the book encompasses the genesis of the Arabic novel in the second half of the nineteenth century and its development to the present in every Arabic-speaking country and in Arab immigrant destinations on six continents. Editor Waïl S. Hassan and his contributors describe a novelistic phenomenon which has pre-modern roots, stretching centuries back within the Arabic cultural tradition, and branching outward geographically and linguistically to every Arab country and to Arab writing in many languages around the world. The first of three innovative dimensions of this Handbook consists of examining the ways in which the Arabic novel emerged out of a syncretic merger between Arabic and European forms and techniques, rather than being a simple importation of the latter and rejection of the former, as early critics of the Arabic novel claimed. The second involves mapping the novel geographically as it took root in every Arab country, developing into often distinct though overlapping and interconnected local traditions. Finally, the Handbook concerns the multilingual character of the novel in the Arab world and by Arab immigrants and their descendants around the world, both in Arabic and in at least a dozen other languages. The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions reflects the current status of research in the broad field of Arab novelistic traditions and signals toward new directions of inquiry.