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Author: Leila Tarakji Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic dissertations Languages : en Pages : 211
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Umma Expressions: Community, Origins, and Representations in Contemporary Muslim American Literature explores how Muslim Americans articulate their "Muslimness" while situating themselves within the Umma or Muslim community. I explore how Muslim writers (re)imagine their plural identities through narrative, grappling with what it means to be Muslim and American simultaneously; how they participate in, react to, challenge, reify, and shape existing rhetoric on Islam and Muslims; and how they participate in the production of American literature and the U.S. cultural imaginary. As it intersects two literary traditions, both national and religious, Muslim American literature weaves in dialogues that have taken place across a myriad of geographical and historical borders for centuries, effectively broadening the scope of American literary studies as well as our conception of America's narrative. As Umma Expressions examines various iterations of Umma that are expressed in contemporary post-9/11 Muslim American literature, each chapter focuses on a primary text that represents a different genre and time period. Beginning with a historical Umma-identification in an American context, Chapter One: "History, Storytelling, and a Muslim American Origins Narrative in Lalami's The Moor's Account" analyzes Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account (2014), which elaborates on the story of a marginalized historical figure named Estebanico. A work of historiographic metafiction, this novel blurs the lines between fiction and history, demonstrating the (inter)textuality of the latter, questioning the process of historiography, and subverting Western narratives of the past. By integrating elements of early African Muslim slave narratives, Lalami contextualizes Estebanico's narrative within Black and Muslim American literary traditions. Chapter Two: "Muslim American Journeys in the Global" examines Willow Wilson's memoir The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam (2010) as an autobiographical conversion narrative that documents her journey to and within Islam. Her journey to a publicly visible and communal expression of her Muslimness illustrates a reciprocal relationship between faith, self, and community. Wilson's perspective as an American convert to Islam contributes to a deeper understanding of American Muslimness that grapples with the narrative of Islam vs. West, private vs. public religion, and American individualism vs. community belonging. Chapter Three: "Breathing Through the Dust in Samira Ahmed's Internment" examines how the Muslim American community has struggled with the suffocating pressures of Islamophobia in the United States. I argue that the physical internment of Muslim Americans in Ahmed's Internment (2019), a work of speculative fiction, symbolizes the marginalization of Muslims in American society. The protagonist Layla bears the burdens of Islamophobia as she fights against a system that seeks to silence and eliminate her Muslim American identity.Lalami, Wilson, and Ahmed offer three very different representations of Muslim American identity, each of which articulates belonging to the Muslim Umma while resisting narratives of an Anglo-American nationalist history; a manufactured clash of civilizations; and American Islamophobia via War on Terror culture.
Author: Leila Tarakji Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic dissertations Languages : en Pages : 211
Book Description
Umma Expressions: Community, Origins, and Representations in Contemporary Muslim American Literature explores how Muslim Americans articulate their "Muslimness" while situating themselves within the Umma or Muslim community. I explore how Muslim writers (re)imagine their plural identities through narrative, grappling with what it means to be Muslim and American simultaneously; how they participate in, react to, challenge, reify, and shape existing rhetoric on Islam and Muslims; and how they participate in the production of American literature and the U.S. cultural imaginary. As it intersects two literary traditions, both national and religious, Muslim American literature weaves in dialogues that have taken place across a myriad of geographical and historical borders for centuries, effectively broadening the scope of American literary studies as well as our conception of America's narrative. As Umma Expressions examines various iterations of Umma that are expressed in contemporary post-9/11 Muslim American literature, each chapter focuses on a primary text that represents a different genre and time period. Beginning with a historical Umma-identification in an American context, Chapter One: "History, Storytelling, and a Muslim American Origins Narrative in Lalami's The Moor's Account" analyzes Laila Lalami's The Moor's Account (2014), which elaborates on the story of a marginalized historical figure named Estebanico. A work of historiographic metafiction, this novel blurs the lines between fiction and history, demonstrating the (inter)textuality of the latter, questioning the process of historiography, and subverting Western narratives of the past. By integrating elements of early African Muslim slave narratives, Lalami contextualizes Estebanico's narrative within Black and Muslim American literary traditions. Chapter Two: "Muslim American Journeys in the Global" examines Willow Wilson's memoir The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam (2010) as an autobiographical conversion narrative that documents her journey to and within Islam. Her journey to a publicly visible and communal expression of her Muslimness illustrates a reciprocal relationship between faith, self, and community. Wilson's perspective as an American convert to Islam contributes to a deeper understanding of American Muslimness that grapples with the narrative of Islam vs. West, private vs. public religion, and American individualism vs. community belonging. Chapter Three: "Breathing Through the Dust in Samira Ahmed's Internment" examines how the Muslim American community has struggled with the suffocating pressures of Islamophobia in the United States. I argue that the physical internment of Muslim Americans in Ahmed's Internment (2019), a work of speculative fiction, symbolizes the marginalization of Muslims in American society. The protagonist Layla bears the burdens of Islamophobia as she fights against a system that seeks to silence and eliminate her Muslim American identity.Lalami, Wilson, and Ahmed offer three very different representations of Muslim American identity, each of which articulates belonging to the Muslim Umma while resisting narratives of an Anglo-American nationalist history; a manufactured clash of civilizations; and American Islamophobia via War on Terror culture.
Author: Ami Ayalon Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195364791 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 211
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Middle Eastern society experienced sudden and profound change in the 19th century under the impact of European expansion and influence. But as Western ideas about politics, technology, and culture began to infiltrate Arab society, the old language proved to be an inadequate vehicle for transmitting these alien concepts from abroad. In this study of the rise of modern Arabic, Ayalon examines 19th-century linguistic change in the Eastern Arab world as a mirror of changing Arab perceptions and responses to the West as well as a guide to the emergence of modern Arabic concepts, institutions, and practices. Focusing on the realm of political discourse, Ayalon looks at a wide array of evidence--local chronicles, travel accounts, translations of European writings, Arab political treatises, newspapers and periodicals, and dictionaries--to show how shifts in the color, tone, and meaning of the Arab vocabulary reflected a new socio-political and cultural reality.
Author: Elabbas Benmamoun Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351377809 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 580
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The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics introduces readers to the major facets of research on Arabic and of the linguistic situation in the Arabic-speaking world. The edited collection includes chapters from prominent experts on various fields of Arabic linguistics. The contributors provide overviews of the state of the art in their field and specifically focus on ideas and issues. Not simply an overview of the field, this handbook explores subjects in great depth and from multiple perspectives. In addition to the traditional areas of Arabic linguistics, the handbook covers computational approaches to Arabic, Arabic in the diaspora, neurolinguistic approaches to Arabic, and Arabic as a global language. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics is a much-needed resource for researchers on Arabic and comparative linguistics, syntax, morphology, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, and also for undergraduate and graduate students studying Arabic or linguistics.
Author: Rex J. Ahdar Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0199582912 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 350
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Leading scholars from a range of countries and academic disciplines, and representing different political viewpoints and faith traditions, explore the complex issues surrounding the legal recognition of religious faith in a multicultural society.
Author: Anne Marie Kitz Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 1575068745 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 541
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This is a book about curses. It is not about curses as insults or offensive language but curses as petitions to the divine world to render judgment and execute harm on identified, hostile forces. In the ancient world, curses functioned in a way markedly different from our own, and it is into the world of the ancient Near East that we must go in order to appreciate the scope of their influence. For the ancient Near Easterners, curses had authentic meaning. Curses were part of their life and religion. They were not inherently magic or features of superstitions, nor were they mere curiosities or trifling antidotes. They were real and effective. They were employed proactively and reactively to manage life’s many vicissitudes and maintain social harmony. They were principally protective, but they were also the cause of misfortune, illness, depression, and anything else that undermined a comfortable, well-balanced life. Every member of society used them, from slave to king, from young to old, from men and women to the deities themselves. They crossed cultural lines and required little or no explanation, for curses were the source of great evil. In other words, curses were universal. Because curses were woven into the very fabric of every known ancient Near Eastern society, they emerge frequently and in a wide variety of venues. They appear on public and private display objects, on tomb stelae, tomb lintels, and sarcophagi, on ancient kudurrus and narûs. They are used in political, administrative, social, religious, and familial contexts. They are the subject of incantations. They are tools that exorcise demons and dispel disease; they ban, protect, and heal. This is the phenomenology of cursing in the ancient Near East, and this is what the present work explores.
Author: Kathryn Ann Kraft Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1620329069 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 169
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Searching for Heaven in the Real World A Sociological Discussion of Conversion in the Arab World While adjusting to a new identity is akin to adjusting to a new set of skin, even more difficult is realising that this new skin may not be as comfortable or as pleasant as the old one. In Searching for Heaven in the Real World, Kathryn Kraft explores the breadth of psychological and societal issues faced by Arab Muslims after making a decision to adopt a faith in Christ or Christianity, investigating some of the most surprising and significant challenges new believers face. Arab Muslims arrive at a point of new faith with great expectations. With such high hopes for what they will experience in their new identity, they are bound to encounter a reality that is different. They need to invest a great deal of emotional energy in addressing their expectations and what they actually encounter. Even so, those who stay the course of faith usually hold on to their dreams, believing that heaven is not only for the afterlife but it is for the real world as well.
Author: Walter H. Wagner Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 0268096546 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 568
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Opening the Qur'an can be a bewildering experience to non-Muslim, English-speaking readers. Those who expect historical narratives, stories, or essays on morals are perplexed once they pass the beautiful first Surah, often shocked and then bogged down by Surah 2, and even offended by Surah 3’s strictures against nonbelievers. Walter H. Wagner “opens” the Qur’an by offering a comprehensive and extraordinarily readable, step-by-step introduction to the text, making it accessible to students, teachers, clergy, and general readers interested in Islam and Islam’s holy Book. Wagner first places the prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an, and the early Muslim community in their historical, geographical, and theological contexts. This background is a basis for interpreting the Qur'an and understanding its role in later Muslim developments as well as for relationships between Muslims, Jews, and Christians. He then looks in detail at specific passages, moving from cherished devotional texts to increasingly difficult and provocative subjects. The selected bibliography serves as a resource for further reading and study. Woven into the discussion are references to Islamic beliefs and practices. Wagner shows great sensitivity toward the risks and opportunities for non-Muslims who attempt to interpret the Qur'an, and sympathy in the long struggle to build bridges of mutual trust and honest appreciation between Muslims and non-Muslims.
Author: Joseph Han Publisher: Catapult ISBN: 1640095942 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
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Set in the months leading up to the 2018 nuclear missile false alarm, a Korean American family living in Hawai'i faces the fallout of their eldest son's attempt to run across the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea in this "fresh, inventive, and at times, hilarious novel" (Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants) "[A] gorgeous debut."—TIME "A richly imagined, era-straddling saga exploring several generations of a Korean American clan."—Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly Things are looking up for Mr. and Mrs. Cho. Their dream of franchising their Korean plate lunch restaurants across Hawaiʻi seems within reach after a visit from Guy Fieri boosts the profile of Cho’s Delicatessen. Their daughter, Grace, is busy finishing her senior year of college and working for her parents, while her older brother, Jacob, just moved to Seoul to teach English. But when a viral video shows Jacob trying—and failing—to cross the Korean demilitarized zone, nothing can protect the family from suspicion and the restaurant from waning sales. No one knows that Jacob has been possessed by the ghost of his lost grandfather, who feverishly wishes to cross the divide and find the family he left behind in the north. As Jacob is detained by the South Korean government, Mr. and Mrs. Cho fear their son won’t ever be able to return home, and Grace gets more and more stoned as she negotiates her family’s undoing. Struggling with what they don’t know about themselves and one another, the Chos must confront the separations that have endured in their family for decades. Set in the months leading up to the 2018 false missile alert in Hawaiʻi, Joseph Han’s profoundly funny and strikingly beautiful debut novel is an offering that aches with histories inherited and reunions missed, asking how we heal in the face of what we forget and who we remember.
Author: Walter Z. Laqueur Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315410672 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 744
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This collection of essays, first published in 1958, presents analyses by some 34 specialists on key political and social trends in the Middle East. They take the reader through the history of the Middle East to help reveal the background behind the changes that took place in the middle of the twentieth century – a time of fundamental political, economic and social change in the region.