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"This book will reward anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of Islam in East African literatures. Proponents of close readings and thematic studies will find this book extremely useful as the analysis is a remarkable effort in rescuing Islam from the margins of cultural theory, allowing the voice of African Muslims from the eastern African coast to be emphatically heard. But most of all, Mirmotahari's sensitive study of Islam is a timely rejoinder to critics of African literatures who have repeatedly engaged in poorly informed interpretations and readings of Islam in African literary fiction, stemming mostly from a lack of proper knowledge and sensitivity to the religion and its practitioners." - Contemporary Islam
"The most comprehensive study of Islam in Eastern African fiction to date, Mirmotahari's book is a welcome addition to the region's re-visioning of its multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-religious history. Well researched and well-argued, this book provides new perspectives on the work of Nuruddin Farah and will hopefully encourage teachers to introduce lesser-taught authors such as Abdulrazak Gurnah and M.G. Vassanji in the classroom." - Gaurav Desai, Tulane University
"Islam in the Eastern African Novel is a superb study that extends and deepens our understanding of the African novel, while at the same time illuminating a panorama of African history that strikingly reveals the inadequacy of the Atlantic paradigm for comprehending the broader expanse of the black world." - Robert Elliot Fox, Southern Illinois University
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Islam in the Eastern African Novel
Authors: Emad Mirmotahari
Series Title: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119291
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Emad Mirmotahari 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10843-1Published: 11 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29124-3Published: 11 May 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11929-1Published: 06 June 2011
Series ISSN: 2945-705X
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 208
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Fiction, Islam, African Literature