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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...

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...

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...

In a novel set in Egypt and entitled Backsheesh, RW presented an Englishman who marries an Islam ic woman.

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...

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 ...

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...

In 1971, the present state of Bangladesh (formerly known as East Pakistan) had seceded from Pakistan, which had then fought a war with India (3-16 December 1971) over the secession. DM was interested in the...