Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights

In this paper, I intend to look at Doris Lessing’s thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights and locate possible commonalities between Islam and her ideas. She is considered a humanist, secular writer of great stature and the ‘grande dame’ of British writing of her time, and she h...

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Main Author:	Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	BP160 General works on Islam L Education (General) LB2300 Higher Education
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spelling	iium-427832018-06-20T01:19:16Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/42783/ Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights Hasan, Md. Mahmudul BP160 General works on Islam L Education (General) LB2300 Higher Education In this paper, I intend to look at Doris Lessing’s thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights and locate possible commonalities between Islam and her ideas. She is considered a humanist, secular writer of great stature and the ‘grande dame’ of British writing of her time, and she handles explicit sexual relationships especially in The Golden Notebook (1962). Hence, a sense of remoteness and incomprehension is, perhaps, palpable in any attempt to establish profound affinities between Islam and this Nobel laureate, or to dare to discover an ‘Islamic Doris Lessing’. However, given her reputation as an author known for her courage and outspokenness and for making unconventional moves and iconoclastic statements sometimes at the expense of her reputation as a formidable literary talent, it will be interesting to see how Islam views her ideas on some specific issues. It is in this spirit that, in this paper I will explore how Lessing’s views on education, literature, racism and women’s rights can be discussed in a classroom setting in line with the Islamization and integration of knowledge undertaking at such an Islamic university as International Islamic University Malaysia. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42783/3/main_document_teaching_doris_lessing_at_iium.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/42783/9/42783.pdf Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2015) Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights. In: The International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and Education 2015 (ICLLCE 2015), 25-26 April 2015, University College Sabah Foundation, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (Unpublished) https://icllce.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/conference-schedule-240415.pdf
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description	In this paper, I intend to look at Doris Lessing’s thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights and locate possible commonalities between Islam and her ideas. She is considered a humanist, secular writer of great stature and the ‘grande dame’ of British writing of her time, and she handles explicit sexual relationships especially in The Golden Notebook (1962). Hence, a sense of remoteness and incomprehension is, perhaps, palpable in any attempt to establish profound affinities between Islam and this Nobel laureate, or to dare to discover an ‘Islamic Doris Lessing’. However, given her reputation as an author known for her courage and outspokenness and for making unconventional moves and iconoclastic statements sometimes at the expense of her reputation as a formidable literary talent, it will be interesting to see how Islam views her ideas on some specific issues. It is in this spirit that, in this paper I will explore how Lessing’s views on education, literature, racism and women’s rights can be discussed in a classroom setting in line with the Islamization and integration of knowledge undertaking at such an Islamic university as International Islamic University Malaysia.
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author	Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
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title	Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights
title_short	Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights
title_full	Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights
title_fullStr	Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights
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