Islam

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Rosita Forbes
Forbes's interviewee, a brigand and a powerful political manager in Morocco (which was currently a Spanish protectorate), masterminded more than one strategic kidnapping of a westerner. She preserves the biblical flavour which El Raisuni 's...
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 Rosita Forbes
RF sets out with a brisk account of the 675 Indian princely States, which involves her in a summary of Indian history and some speculation about the future. The various strands in her political thinking...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jemima Kindersley
With this exception, JK shows herself moderately accepting of different cultures. She discusses the caste system (which, apart from the deplorable condition of the untouchables, she finds not uncongenial to eighteenth-century notions of the benefits...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jemima Kindersley
Thomas's work, as translated by Kindersley, is interesting for its bald opening statement of women's dilemma, in all countries and ages . . . everywhere . . . adored and oppressed.
Thomas, Antoine Leonard. An Essay on the Character, the Manners, and the Understanding of Women. Translator Kindersley, Jemima, J. Dodsley.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Edna Lyall
EL 's protagonist is Kaspar Sefarian, a young American-Armenian who travels from New York to work at the Armenian College in Vosdân. He has an American fiancée (bearing the highly suggestive name of Faith...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Hannah Lynch
HL opens by contrasting Madrid, which she calls modern, insignificant, and cheap (not in prices but in effect) with Toledo, which she finds silent, romantic, and magnificently faithful to its past.
Lynch, Hannah. Toledo. The Story of an Old Spanish Capital. J. M. Dent.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Cecily Mackworth
She depicts an astonishing range of individuals: an Arab woman who hates Jews and their acquisition of land, yet would never dream of selling to a fellow-Arab if a Jew would give her more money...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Dervla Murphy
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Julia O'Faolain
The topics covered in richly informative detail, far too many to enumerate, include a father's life-or-death rights over his offspring in ancient Greece, while such topics as buying and selling sex, or the relation...
Textual Production Nawal El Saadawi
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 ...
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...

Timeline

1899: Egyptian jurist and reformer Qasim Amin argued...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

November 2015: A death sentence was passed in Saudi Arabia...

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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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