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The Rushdie affair : the novel, the ayatollah, and the West
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ISBN: 1559720255 Year: 1990 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Birch Lane

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Journal of al-tamaddun.
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Year: 2005 Publisher: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Dept of Islamic History and Civilization, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya,

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The Politics of Writing Islam : Voicing Difference
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ISBN: 9781441165244 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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"Critical and theoretical essays on forms of studying, writing and representing Islam in Western humanities and literature"-- "The Politics of Writing Islam provides a much-needed critique of existing forms of studying, writing and representing Islam in the West. Through critiquing ethnographic, literary, critical, psychoanalytic and theological discourses, the author reveals the problematic underlying cultural and theoretical presuppositions. Mutman demonstrates how their approach reflects the socially, politically and economically unequal relationship between the West and Islam. While offering a critical insight into concepts such as writing, power, post-colonialism, difference and otherness on a theoretical level, Mutman reveals a different perspective on Islam by emphasizing its living, everyday and embodied aspects in dynamic relation with the outside world - in contrast to the stereotyped authoritarian and backward religion characterized by an omnipotent God. Throughout, Mutman develops an approach to culture as an embodied, everyday, living and ever changing practice. He argues that Islam should be perceived precisely in this way, that is, as an open, heterogeneous, interpretive, multiple and worldly belief system within the Abrahamic tradition of ethical monotheism, and as one that is contested within as well as outside its 'own' culture"--

The postcolonial crescent : Islam's impact on contemporary literature
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ISBN: 0820437948 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Lang

Salman Rushdie
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ISBN: 0805770119 0805747915 9780805770117 Year: 1992 Volume: TEAS 488 Publisher: New York, NY : Twayne,


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Dante and Islam
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ISBN: 9780823263868 082326386X 9780823263875 0823263878 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Fordham University Press

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"Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a "night journey" taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur'an and of Islamic philosophy and science in Dante's day and explores the bases for Dante's images of Muhammad and Ali. It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians"--


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Religion, mysticism and modern Arabic literature
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ISBN: 3447053259 9783447053259 9783447053259 Year: 2006 Volume: 12 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag


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A mirror for our times : 'The Rushdie affair' and the future of multiculturalism
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ISBN: 9780826432766 9780826451200 082643276X 0826451209 1472548809 9786612874758 1441148833 1282874756 9781441148834 9781472548801 9781282874756 6612874759 Year: 2009 Publisher: London New York : Continuum,

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26th September 2008 marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of The Satanic Verses controversy - a controversy that in many ways became paradigmatic for the following two decades. Taking as its starting-point the opening two years of the controversy, Paul Weller uses the events and arguments of those years as a lens through which to view what later developed, both in relation to the controversy itself, but also its wider entails, and the incidents and issues through which aspects of the original controversy were reprised. The anniversary of the controversy presents a good opportunity to review the incidents, issues and debates of the time in some historical perspective, while also connecting them with subsequent incidents that have reprised some of the key themes, such as the 'cartoons' controversy, the terror attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, and the killing of the Dutch filmmaker, Theo Van Gogh. The book holds up a mirror for our times that will be of interest to academics, politicians, students, and religious believers, as well as to all who are engaged with the twenty-first century challenges posed by living with radical difference, freedom of expression, and mutual respect, with exploring the relationship between religion and secularity, and with overcoming the threats posed by religiously informed violence.

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