Religious perspectives in modern Muslim and Jewish literatures
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Religious perspectives in modern Muslim and Jewish literatures
(Routledge studies in Middle Eastern literatures, 8)
Routledge, 2006
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection 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. The chapters collected here consider elements of the expression of Judaism and Islam in modern literature. Key topics such as religious ideas and teachings, aspects of mysticism, the tenets of religion, uses made of sacred texts, religion and popular culture and reflections of religious controversies are covered. While there is an embodied comparative element to the chapters, the essays are not confined by comparisons and cover a wide range of the literary expression of religious issues.
Table of Contents
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 Kisakurek 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
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