Islam

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.

A play by NES entitled God Resigns in the Summit Meeting was prematurely destroyed by its Arabic publishers at police insistence (though it had been published in English), on grounds of insult to Islam ...

The focus of these volumes is explicitly the spiritual or religious aspect of life. FB was fascinated and repelled by the charisma and authoritarianism of the Catholic Church , attracted by the Swiss Free Church

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

In a 2017 interview, KS noted that she describes herself as a Muslim , but declined to acknowledge whether or not she is practising.

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...

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...