Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures

ISBN-13: 9780415350211 / Twarda / 2005 / 338 str.

Opis

This book brings together discussions of the way in which Muslim and Jewish beliefs and practices are represented in modern literary texts of poetry, fiction and drama.

Recenzje

'This book is a valuable source of knowledge on the subject of Jewish and Muslim writers confirming modernity. Explanatory rather than critical, and above all, objective, this book achieves genuine inter-faith understanding...This work being unique of its kind, it can be recommended for college graduates who will not easily find its broad perspective elsewhere.' - The Muslim World Book Review

Spis treści

1. Urdu Poetry as a Vehicle for Islamic Re-Expression  2. 'Bless each day that passes': The Search for Religious Faith in the Poetry of Ittamar Yaoz-Kest  3. Paths to God Within the Poet: Necip Fazil Kisakürek and his Mystical Poetry  4. 'Merciful Father Abraham: The Mystical Poetry of Benjamin Shvili  5. Moral Education through Islamic Songs in Twentieth-Century Java  6. 'Together with the shell, they have thrown away the kernel': Aharon Halle Wolfssohn's Critique of Judaism  7. The Uzbek Short Story Writer Fitrat's Adaptation of Religious Traditions  8. Kulturkampf in the Israeli Theatre: The Issue of Religion  9. Religion in Contemporary Persian Prose  10. Martyrdom and Gender in American Jewish Culture  11. A 'Cinderella' Goes to Hausaland: Islam, Gender and Hausa Literature  12. Rachel Morpurgo in the Context of Jewish Emancipation in Italy  13. Modern Arabic Literature and the Qur'an: Inimitability, Creatvity,...Incompatibility  14. Avraham Goldfaden's Theatre of Jewishness: Three Prooftexts  15. Transcending the Boundaries of Islam: Writtten Swahili Literature in the Twentieth Century  16. Between Eros and Dios: Leopoldo Azancot's Novia Judia

O autorze

Glenda Abramson was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, educated in Israel and received her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. From 1981 she has been teaching at the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford and at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Hilary Kilpatrick studied Arabic at Oxford. She has taught Arabic literature at universities in Scotland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. She is one of the editors of the journal Middle Eastern Literatures and has published on modern Arabic fiction and classical Arabic belles-lettres, including Making the Great Book of Songs (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).