This book by Amin Malak offers a series of engagements with fiction written by Anglophone Muslim writers. The book focuses on well-known novels including Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love and Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame; lesser-known fictional works by Ahmad Ali, Abdulrazak Gurnah, M. G. Vassanji, and Adib Khan; and works of pioneering and contemporary Muslim women writers including Rokeya Hossain, & Fatima Mernissi.
Here's a list of the writers and their work discussed in the book:
- Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's (Bengali) Sultana's Dream (1905)
- Ahmed Ali's (Indian) Twilight in Delhi (1940)
- Iqbalunnisa Hussain (Indian) Purdah and Polygamy (1944)
- Attia Hosain (Indian) Phoenix Fled (1953)
- Mena Abdullah (Australian) The Time of the Peacock (1967)
- Salman Rushdi (Indian-British) Midnight Children (1981)
- Nuruddin Farrah (Somali) Close Sesame (1983)
- Ahdaf Soueif (Egyptian-British) Aisha (1983)
- Zaynab Alkali (Nigerian) The Stillborn (1984)
- Abdelrazak Gurnah (Zanzibari-British) Memory of Departure (1987)
- M.G. Vassanji (Indian-East African-Canadian) The gunny Sack (1989)
- Farhana Sheikh (Pakistani) The Red Box (1991)
- Che Husna Azhari (Malaysian) The Rambutan Orchard (1993)
- Fatma Merrnisi (Moroccan) Dreams of Trespass (1994)
- Adib Khan (Bengali-Australian) Seasonal Adjustments (1995)
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