Gale Researcher Guide for: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

Gale Researcher Guide for: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
Author: Ana Cristina Mendes
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 11
Release:
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1535852216

Gale Researcher Guide for: Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Gale Researcher Guide for: The Magical Realism of Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie

Gale Researcher Guide for: The Magical Realism of Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie
Author: Lawrence Phillips
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 15
Release:
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1535854294

Gale Researcher Guide for: The Magical Realism of Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Gale Researcher Guide for: Trends in British Literature after World War II

Gale Researcher Guide for: Trends in British Literature after World War II
Author: Lawrence Phillips
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 12
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Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1535852739

Gale Researcher Guide for: Trends in British Literature after World War II is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Islam in Europe

Islam in Europe
Author: Jack Goody
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2013-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0745657559

This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history. Following the movement of people, culture and religion from East to West, Goody breaks down the perceived opposition between Islam and Europe, showing Islam to be a part of Europe's past and present. In an historical analysis of religious warfare and forced migration, Goody examines our understanding of legitimate violence, ethnic cleansing and terrorism. His comparative perspective offers important and illuminating insights into current political problems and conflicts. Goody traces three routes of Islam into Europe, following the Arab through North Africa, Spain and Mediterranean Europe; the Turk through Greece and the Balkans; and the Mongol through Southern Russia to Poland and Lithuania. Each thrust made its mark on Europe in terms of population and culture. Yet this was not merely a military impact: especially in Spain, but elsewhere too, Europe was substantially modified by this contact. Today it takes the form of some eleven million immigrants, not to speak of the possible incorporation of further millions through Bosnia, Albania and Turkey.

Khwabnama

Khwabnama
Author: Akhteruzzaman Elias
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9354920241

Bengal in the 1940s. Having overcome the famine and the revolt of the sharecroppers, Bengal's peasants are uniting. Work is scarce and wages are low. There is barely any food to be had. The proposal for the formation of Pakistan, the elections of 1946, and communal riots are rewriting the contours of history furiously. Amidst all this, in an unnamed village, a familiar corporeal spirit plunges into knee-deep mud. This is Tamiz's father, the man in possession of Khwabnama. At first glance, Khwabnama is the tale of a harmless young farmhand who becomes a sharecropper and dreams of a future that has everything to do with the land that he cultivates and the soil that he tills. The fabric of his dreams, though, have as much to do with the history of the land as its future, and as much to do with memories as with hope. In this magnum opus, which documents the Tebhaga movement, wherein peasants demanded two-thirds of the harvest they produced on the land owned by zamindars, Akhtaruzzaman Elias has created an extraordinary tale of magical realism, blending memory with reality, legend with history and the struggle of marginalized people with the stories of their ancestors.

Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton

Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton
Author: Ashraf Hoque
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2019
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1787351351

What is it like to be a young Muslim man in the wake of the 2005 London bombings? What impact do political factors have on the multifaceted identities of young Muslim men? Drawn from the author's ethnographic research of British-born Muslim men in the English town of Luton, Being Young, Muslim and Male in Luton explores the everyday lives of young men and, focusing on how their identity as Muslims has shaped the way they interact with each other, the local community, and the wider world. Through a study of religious values, the pressures of masculinity, the complexities of family and social life, and attitudes towards work and leisure, Ashraf Hoque argues that young Muslims in Luton are subverting what it means to be "British" by consciously prioritizing and rearticulating their "Muslim identities" in novel and dynamic ways that suit their experiences. Employing rich interviews and extensive participant observation, Hoque paints a detailed picture of young Muslims living in a town consistently associated in the popular media with terrorist activity and as a hotbed for radicalization. He challenges widely held assumptions and gives voice to an emerging generation of Muslims who view Britain as their home and are very much invested in the long-term future of the country and their permanent place within it.

The First Muslim

The First Muslim
Author: Lesley Hazleton
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013
Genre: Islam
ISBN: 1594487286

Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known. In The First Muslim, Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion, and psychology, she renders him as a man in full, in all his complexity and vitality. Hazleton's account follows the arc of Muhammad's rise from powerlessness to power, from anonymity to renown, from insignificance to lasting significance. How did a child shunted to the margins end up revolutionizing his world? How did a merchant come to challenge the established order with a new vision of social justice? How did the pariah hounded out of Mecca turn exile into a new and victorious beginning? How did the outsider become the ultimate insider?

A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "The Year of Spaghetti"

A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 29
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 141035248X

A Study Guide for Haruki Murakami's "The Year of Spaghetti," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey

Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey
Author: K. Cayir
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-04-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230605699

This book explores the changing understandings of Islam by focusing on the Islamist movement's production of literary fiction since the early 1980s. By focusing on Islamic literary narratives of the period, this study introduces issues of change, space, history and analytical relation that are excluded by the essentialist reading of Islamism.