Interview with Umm Zakiyyah

Interview with Umm Zakiyyah

Umm Zakiyyah is one of the most prominent African-American Muslim writers writing about Muslims and Islam in the post-9/11 period. Her novels touch on the interfaith struggles of Muslims and Christians in a post-modern world and on the moral, spiritual and intercultural struggles of Muslims as minor...

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Main Author: Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Flinders University, Australia 2018
Subjects:
PE English
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PN Literature (General)
PN0080 Criticism
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/65233/
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spelling iium-652332018-08-15T01:20:41Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/65233/ Interview with Umm Zakiyyah Quayum, Mohammad Abdul PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PN Literature (General) PN0080 Criticism Umm Zakiyyah is one of the most prominent African-American Muslim writers writing about Muslims and Islam in the post-9/11 period. Her novels touch on the interfaith struggles of Muslims and Christians in a post-modern world and on the moral, spiritual and intercultural struggles of Muslims as minorities in a country where Muslims have been systematically marginalised after twin-tower attacks in 2001 and the subsequent American invasions of Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). She also writes about racism, women’s issues, the practice of Muslim women wearing headscarfs, and polygamy. In this interview, Umm Zakiyyah talks about her favourite writers, about the function of the writer in general, about the critical reception of her novels and about the influence of Islam on her imagination. She also addresses the issues of Islamophobia in the West, the future of Islamic fiction and questions pertaining to If I Should Speak and other novels. Flinders University, Australia 2018-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/65233/1/Interview%20with%20UZ.pdf Quayum, Mohammad Abdul (2018) Interview with Umm Zakiyyah. Writers in Conversation, 5 (2). pp. 1-5. ISSN 2203-4293 https://journals.flinders.edu.au/index.php/wic/index
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topic PE English
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PN Literature (General)
PN0080 Criticism
spellingShingle PE English
PI Oriental languages and literatures
PN Literature (General)
PN0080 Criticism
Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
Interview with Umm Zakiyyah
description Umm Zakiyyah is one of the most prominent African-American Muslim writers writing about Muslims and Islam in the post-9/11 period. Her novels touch on the interfaith struggles of Muslims and Christians in a post-modern world and on the moral, spiritual and intercultural struggles of Muslims as minorities in a country where Muslims have been systematically marginalised after twin-tower attacks in 2001 and the subsequent American invasions of Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). She also writes about racism, women’s issues, the practice of Muslim women wearing headscarfs, and polygamy. In this interview, Umm Zakiyyah talks about her favourite writers, about the function of the writer in general, about the critical reception of her novels and about the influence of Islam on her imagination. She also addresses the issues of Islamophobia in the West, the future of Islamic fiction and questions pertaining to If I Should Speak and other novels.
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publisher Flinders University, Australia
publishDate 2018
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/65233/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/65233/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/65233/1/Interview%20with%20UZ.pdf
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