Islam

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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 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
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 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...

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