The marabout and the muse : new approaches to Islam in African literature / edited by Kenneth W. Harrow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrow, Kenneth W., editor.

Series:

Studies in African literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature.

Israel--In literature.

African literature--Islamic influences.

Islam in literature.

African literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 239 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann ; London : James Currey, [1996]

Summary:

"These essays attest to the vitality of African traditions that also belong to the world of Islam. Islamic texts are presented here as essential components of the African cultural and social environment with which they enter into full dialogue."--BOOK JACKET. "This collection focuses on particular regions, including the Maghreb, Somalia, and Northern Nigeria; on notable authors, like Assia Djebar and Nuruddin Farah; and on crucial issues, like the involvement of women authors in Islamic literature and the entrance of Islamic orthodoxy into indigenous African texts. Many of the authors demonstrate the tension between the path of purity and that of mixing which continues to inform the development of Islamic literature in Africa."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Kenneth W. Harrow

Jihad, ijtihad, and other dialogical wars in La Mere du printemps, Le Harem politique, and Loin de Medine / George Lang

Dismantling the Maghreb : Moroccan writers and Islamic culture / Christopher Gibbins

Women's words : Assia Djebar's Loin de Medine / Patricia Geesey

Daughters of Hagar : daughters of Muhammad / Sonia Lee

The re-racination of Driss Chraibi: a hajj in search of a new Mecca / John Hawley

Piloting through turbulence : griots, Islam, and the French encounter in four epics about nineteenth century West African heroes / Brett C. Bowles and Thomas Hale

Islamic inscriptions and motifs and Arab genealogies in the epic tale of the Kingdom of Waalo (Njaajaan Njaay) / Samba Diop

The fusion of Sufi and nomad thought in the poetry of Hawad, Tuareg mystic / Debra Boyd-Buggs

Muslim perceptions in a Swahili oral genre / Farouk Topan

Sittaat : Somali women's songs for the "Mother of the Believers" / Lidwien Kapteijns and Mariam Omar Ali

Women's Islamic literature in northern Nigeria : 150 years of tradition / Jean Boyd and Beverly Mack

Islamic influences on otal traditions in Hausa literature / Patricia Starratt

The quest for orthodoxy in The Last Imam of Ibrahim Tahir / Ahmed Sheikh Bangura

The view from a mosque of words : Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame and The Holy Qur'an / Maggi Philips

Mapping Islam in Farah's maps / Alamin Mazrui.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Marabout and the muse.

ISBN:

0435089838

9780435089832

0852555407

9780852555408

0415136725

9780415136723

OCLC:

34886705