“Halal fiction” and the limits of postsecularism: Criticism, critique, and the Muslim in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret
This article examines Leila Aboulela’s 2005 novel Minaret, considering the extent to which it can be seen as an example of a postsecular text. The work has been praised by some as one of the most cogent attempts to communicate a life of Islamic faith in the English language novel form. Others have expressed concern about what they perceive as its apparent endorsement of submissiveness and a secondary status for women, along with its silence on some of the more thorny political issues facing Islam in the modern world. I argue that both these readings are shaped by the current “market” for Musli... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
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SAGE Publications
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Schlagwörter: | Leila Aboulela / Talal Asad / Northrop Frye / Islam / Saba Mahmood / Minaret / postsecular / realism |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26879064 |
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Link(s) : | https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/84x18 |