Islam

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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 et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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.
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Textual Features May Crommelin
In a preface MC remarks on the difficulties, for Western women, of penetrat[ing] into the secluded lives of their Eastern sisters. In a tone sympathetic to Islam and not condemning the harem system, she thanks...
politics Mary Fisher
The reception in Izmir of MF and her associates shows that Quakers were as unacceptable to the English establishment abroad as at home. Her celebrated audience with Mehmet IV was reported in print a few...
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
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
A romantic sense of her own identity as a white, Christian (apparently Anglican ) Englishwoman seems to inform those of RW 's fictions that fulminate against mixed marriages or liaisons, which she presented as socially...
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
KS comes from a long line of distinguished female Pakistani writers; her mother, grandmother, great-aunt, and older sister are all published authors. The family were Muslim , with English and Urdu both in use. She...
Cultural formation Kamila Shamsie
In a 2017 interview, KS noted that she describes herself as a Muslim , but declined to acknowledge whether or not she is practising.
Nicol, Patricia. “Author of the moment Kamila Shamsie on what it is to be a Muslim today”. Evening Standard.

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