Very often Muslim women are defined, named by others who pretend they know or can speak for Muslim women. Faridah in this collection of travel poems define the world and people she met – from Ithaca in New York to Venice, Milan, Bellagio, Sheffield in the UK, Kyoto in Japan, Skansen, Stockholm, Frankfurt, Sarajevo, Singapore, Samarkand, Tashkent, Kolkata, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Cairo, Dubai, Lake Brienz, Zurich and Guiyang, China. Her political and historical interpretations will give a different dimension that of a Muslim woman with western education but so grounded in her Malay Muslim traditions.
This collection is useful to understand the young minds of both Malaysia and Pakistan through their creative writings in English. For young writers wanting to learn how to write, this book will be a good start too.
Islamisation of Knowledge is a term we use at IIUM as an alternative on how we read and interpret knowledge especially secular ones. It is not out to convert anyone but an alternative way of reading texts. In this book, contributors write on concept of man both from the Western and Islamic perspectives. If the West is afraid of Islam, Muslims too look at western literature with suspicion but this book is kind to Kipling, Shakespeare and other writers in American and British Literature.
This collection of short stories in Malay is the result of FRGS, a national research grant by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia in which 4 researchers ran a special creative writing module using literary, spiritual and counselling approaches to encourage female prisoners to write creatively. An impact study was done and it was found that the project improved their sense of efficacy and sense of identity. A prisoner who could not write well was so motivated that she could finish up her story in Malay and another who spoke and wrote no Malay bought a Malay dictionary to enable her to write in Malay and her story is featured in the anthology.
This book is a compilation of articles by Asia Pacific scholars on Asia Pacific literatures and cultures. The topics range from writings by Asia Pacific writers like Edwin Thumboo, Ricardo de Ungria, Suchen Lim and West Australia women poets like Fay Zwicky, Caroline Caddy and Miriam Lo. There are also articles on Asian American and Asian Canadian in films, Makyong in Malaysia, Malaysia identity in Malaysian contemporary dance, etc. The themes range from political identity, sexuality, gender and nationhood.
This book provides information on Malaysian literature written in Malay, Chinese and English from different periods. The themes explored range from gender, ethnicity, religion, language and identity to nationalism and transnationalism. Readers as well as researchers will find the book a rich source of information on Malaysian literature, history and culture. It may be published in 2009 but it will give you a good sense of Malaysian history, culture and literature.
This book offers an alternative to reading shakespearan tragedies. Also it aims to prove that English literatures (Shakespeareans studies in particular) can be read from an Islamic perspective. The wildly concept of ‘tragic heroes’ is revised according to Islamic framework and a reading of three states of self (nafs) first mention in the Quran. The Islamic concept of tragic hero is studied in comparison with concepts already accepted in the West, bringing in arguments from the Judeo/ Christians/Islamic traditions. This is yet another attempt of the study in finding a meeting point of the three Abrahamic religion and in making Islam as a universal religion which fixed in any study, at anytime, anywhere. This book was even translated into Arabic for the Middle Eastern market as a project taken by a Yemeni translator, Dr Abdul Wahab al-Maqalih.
This book documents Malaysian women’s writing in English from 1940s-1990s in which with team ranging from national identity, female space, female voices, conflict of tradition and modernity, impact of globalization on Malaysian women. The book is co-edited with M Qayyum to fill in the vacuum on Malaysian women’s writing in English before and after Malaysian Independence as part of literary history of Malaysian literature in English. It would be vey helpful to researchers and scholars alike who are working on Malaysian literature in English or those who wish to understand better Malaysian politics and sociological make-up.
In this first collection of poems, I write of my early years as a student Studying English Literature in New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia. I also record my various travels not repeated in my 2nd book of poetry (Vietnam, Pakistan, Japan and USA). My identity as a wife, mother and academic is also captured. My identity as a Muslim woman and my resistance being defined by others is evident in many of my poems here. ‘My veil, my body’ has travelled many countries and featured in many magazines/journals in the USA, Iran, Australia, etc.
