ISLAMIC INDIVIDUALISM AND THE LOGIC OF THE NARRATIVE: An Interview with Leila Aboulela

ISLAMIC INDIVIDUALISM AND THE LOGIC OF THE NARRATIVE An Interview with Leila Aboulela

Leila Aboulela is a prize-winning British-Sudanese author, who has made waves in the mainstream literary market by bringing an Islamic worldview to bear in her novels and short stories. Her main novels to date are The Translator (1999), Minaret (2005) and Lyrics Alley (2010). Aboulela currently live...

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Published in:Interventions (London, England) Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 613 - 624
Main Author: Rashid, C. E.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01-12-2012
Subjects:
Aboulela
Arab Novel
Islam
Islamophobia
Sudan
Sufism
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Summary:Leila Aboulela is a prize-winning British-Sudanese author, who has made waves in the mainstream literary market by bringing an Islamic worldview to bear in her novels and short stories. Her main novels to date are The Translator (1999), Minaret (2005) and Lyrics Alley (2010). Aboulela currently lives in Doha, but arrived in the United Kingdom in December 2010 to promote Lyrics Alley. I took this opportunity to interview her about her position as a Muslim writer, and about the implications of writing Islam into the novel.
ISSN:1369-801X
1469-929X
DOI:10.1080/1369801X.2012.730863