Islam

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. She...

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...

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...

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...

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. It notes that...