Nicol, Patricia. “Author of the moment Kamila Shamsie on what it is to be a Muslim today”. Evening Standard.
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Cultural formation | Rosita Forbes | Her parents, she said (who were both members of the land-owning class, though in her father's case with strong egalitarian sympathies), had such a sensitive awareness of the next world that the permissible conveniences of... |
Cultural formation | Roma White | |
Cultural formation | Rudyard Kipling | As an English boy and then man in India, Rudyard must have been constantly aware of his status as one of the white race and administrative ruling class. His earliest memories of India were impressions... |
Cultural formation | Kamila Shamsie | |
Cultural formation | Kamila Shamsie | |
politics | Mary Fisher | |
politics | Mary Carpenter | MC
was impartially critical of various Hindu
, Muslim
, and Parsi
practices, but realised that her reforms had to proceed without attempting to convert Indian women from their religion. She was convinced that Christianity |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | |
Textual Production | Nawal El Saadawi | |
Textual Production | Rosemary Sutcliff | RS
based her adult novel Blood and Sand on the story of the actual Thomas Keith
from Edinburgh, who fought against Napoleon
, was captured in Egypt in 1807, converted to Islam
, and made... |
Textual Production | Roma White | In a novel set in Egypt and entitled Backsheesh, RW
presented an Englishman who marries an Islam
ic woman. Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | As monarch, she maintained a remarkably wide-ranging correspondence. She wrote her first letter to a Muslim
sovereign, the Great Sophie of Persia (the Savafid emperor), in 1561. Andrea, Bernardette. The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literatre and Culture. University of Toronto Press, 2017. 43 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kamila Shamsie | Offence is her first (and as of 2018, only) non-fiction book. It chronicles the formation of the offended Muslim archetype and the historical conditions which foregrounded the politicization of Islam
and the rise of extremism... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | RF
nevertheless argued that the Senussi in general, and Emir Sidi Idris
in particular, were not necessarily hostile to the British: they were merchants; they had found that moving skins and ivory abroad for sale... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Gillian Slovo | The novel deals with the politics behind the warfare: the military struggle for control of Sudan betweenMuhammad Ahmad
(self-styled the Mahdi, a redeemer figure in Islam
) versus the powers of Egypt and Turkey... |
Timeline
1899
Egyptian jurist and reformer Qasim Amin
argued in a book whose title translates as The Liberation of Women that European civilization was more advanced than the Islamic
culture of Egypt, and that an important...
1 April 1947
Mahatma Gandhi
suggested, remarkably for a devout Hindu
, that the first Prime Minister of an independent (and united) India should be the MuslimMuhammad Ali Jinnah
(who after Partition became first premier of Pakistan).
8 September 1999
Leila Aboulela
, a Sudanese-Scottish, Muslim writer who has lived since 1990 in Aberdeen, published The Translator, the first of her explicitly Islamicistnovels, preaching what she herself calls Islamic feminism.
2007
Bouchra El-Hor
, one of two British Muslim
women tried this year at the Old Bailey on charges of writing material supporting terrorist action, was acquitted by the jury after Carmen Callil
gave evidence about...
October 2008
At a conference in Oxford on Islam
and feminism, Amina Wadud
(an American academic) became the first woman to lead British Muslims in prayer and deliver a Friday sermon.
November 2015
A death sentence was passed in Saudi Arabia on Ashraf Fayadh
, a Palestinian poet, for blasphemy and renouncing Islam
, crimes allegedly committed both in poetry and in coffee-house conversation.
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