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The Crescent and the Pen
This is a book about a writer, Islamic fundamentalism, mythmaking, and international literary politics. It is the story of Taslima Nasreen, a former medical doctor and protest writer who shot to international fame in 1993 at the age of thirty-four after she was accused of blasphemy by religious fanatics in Bangladesh and her book Shame was banned. In order to escape a warrant for her arrest, the controversial writer went underground and, as the official story has it, fled to the West where she became a human rights celebrity, a female version of Salman Rushdie. Taslima Nasreen's name almost became a household word in 1994, when she was awarded the Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament, a...
The Jihād Seminar
In March 2002, three Muslims attend an evangelical Christian seminar promoted to reveal the inner secrets of 'Holy Jihad'. Shocked by what they hear, they convince the Islamic Council of Victoria to lodge a complaint against Catch the Fire Ministries, under a controversial new hate speech law. A case expected tobe over in three days turns into an unholy war of words lasting five long years - freedom of speech versus freedom from vilification is under the spotlight. Award-winning author Hanifa Deen follows this case from beginning to end, witnessing the religious impulse at its best - and worst. Her very human account focuses on the personalities and motives of the two religious tribes - Muslims and born again Christians. Real people - on both sides of the courtroom- express their pain and their innocence at a hearing that turns into a nightmare.
Caravanserai
"What is it about Muslims that fascinates yet repels mainstream Australians? Why do some Muslim women choose to cover, while others don't. What is life in Muslim communities really like?" "Hanifa Deen takes us on a journey to the heart of Muslim Australia. She goes to Melbourne for Ramadan, attends the wedding of a convert and seeks out the true believers in Sydney's Lakemba. She tells stories of migration and settlement, happy and traumatised families, and the problems of young people straddling two worlds. She discovers strong communities, dynamic women's networks and a wide variety of religious practice."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Muslim Minorities in the West
Nineteen international academics contribute fifteen chapters to this text examining issues faced by Muslim minority communities in the U.S., Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the Caribbean. The essays explore the movement of these minority communities from positions of invisibility to greater public visibility within their adopted countries. They reveal the challenges faced by Muslims as they seek to assume their legitimate places in Western societies which may or may not be willing to accept their presence or their demands. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Ali Abdul V. the King
Award winning author Hanifa Deen enters the wonderful world of the archives and discovers a tribe of men with a hidden history. Men whose stories are rarely told: the Ghans, Cameleers, Sepoys, hawkers, herbalists, and pearl divers, known collectively as Mohammedans in early Australian history.
Broken Bangles
ýBroken Bangles is the story of how I found a place in the corner of these womenýs lives for a short whileýý From the eccentric comforts of Mona Lisa guest house in Dhaka to the dusty frontier town of Peshawar, Hanifa Deen traveled through Bangladesh and Pakistan to discover the many faces of Muslim women today, meeting and talking to mavericks, feminists and starry-eyed foreign wives; actresses and socialites; urban professionals and rural women who had never left their villages. With humour, compassion and insight, Hanifa Deen relates stories of their fight against oppression, of the friendships of women, of the joys and frustrations of the extended family, of the unwritten laws that govern womenýs lives and the violence that can threaten them. She also stumbles on the trail of a mysteryýthe murder of Yasmeen, an innocent girl whose death galvanized a nation and symbolizes the danger women face when they step outside the ýcircle of protectioný. Broken Bangles is a much-needed book in the subcontinent today, when womenýs voices are often the last to be heard and their concerns almost an afterthought.
On the Trail of Taslima
This is a book about a writer, Islamic fundamentalism, mythmaking, and international literary politics. It is the story of Taslima Nasreen, a writer who shot to international fame in 1993, at the age of thirty-four after she was accused of blasphemy by religious extremists in Bangladesh and her book "Shame" was banned. In order to escape a warrant for her arrest, she went underground and, as the official story has it, fled to the West where she became a human rights celebrity, a female version of Salman Rushdie, feted by presidents, chancellors, mayors, and famous writers and intellectuals around Europe. She is still remembered and widely admired as a modern-day feminist icon who fought the ...
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21:3
The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.
Labels and Locations
Some happy occasions, like the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book to Bangladeshi-Australian author Adib Khan, the 2008 Man Booker Prize to Indian born Australian writer Arvinda Adiga, and the 2013 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction to Sri Lankan-Australian author Michele de Krester, have boosted the self-confidence of South Asian-Australian writers in Australia. South Asian diasporic communities have also been the focus for relatively small, but constantly growing, studies by anthropologists and sociologists on the interrelation of gender, race, ethnicity and migration in Australia. The terms Labels and Locations capture numerous aspects that contribute in...
South Asian Diaspora Narratives
This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’ in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in a liminal space, in-between two identities, two cultures, and two histories. Yet, ‘home’ remains, through acts of imagination, remembering and re-creation, an important reference point. The author argues that a clearer notion of politics of location is required to distinguish between the different kinds of ‘dislocation’ the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. The diaspora is Australia is an under-studied topic, and this book fills a lacuna in South Asian diaspora studies by analysing and calling upon a wide range of works in this field from historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and literary studies.
