Nicol, Patricia. “Author of the moment Kamila Shamsie on what it is to be a Muslim today”. Evening Standard, 29 Sept. 2017.
Islam
Connections
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Cultural formation | Roma White | |
Cultural formation | Kamila Shamsie | |
Cultural formation | Kamila Shamsie | |
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 | 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... |
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 |
politics | Mary Fisher | |
Textual Features | Fredrika Bremer | 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 |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | |
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 | 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 |
Textual Production | Nawal El Saadawi | |
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, 1990. |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jessie Ellen Cadell | The article contains two linked analyses, of FitzGerald
as a translator and of Omar
as a thinker. She calls the former's rendering a poem on Omar, rather than a translation of his work, and points... |
Timeline
1899: Egyptian jurist and reformer Qasim Amin argued...
Building item
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...
National or international item
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).
Vedantam, Shankar. “Lost recording of Gandhi uncovered”. Guardian Weekly, 15 Aug. 2008, p. 30.
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8 September 1999: Leila Aboulela, a Sudanese-Scottish, Muslim...
Women writers item
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 Islamicist novels, preaching what she herself calls Islamic feminism.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
2007: Bouchra El-Hor, one of two British Muslim...
Writing climate item
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,...
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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.
“News in brief”. Guardian Weekly, 24 Oct. 2008, p. 15.
15
November 2015: A death sentence was passed in Saudi Arabia...
National or international item
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.
“Poets appalled by Saudi death sentence”. Guardian Weekly, 4 Dec. 2015, p. 3.
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