Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures

Introduction  1. Urdu Poetry as a Vehicle for Islamic Re-expression Christopher Shackle  2. 'Bless Each Day that Passes': The search for religious faith in the poetry of Ittamar Yaoz-Kest David Jacobson  3. Paths to God with the Poet: Necip Fazil Kisakürek and his mystical poetry B. Babür Turna  4. Kabbalistic Mysticism in the Poetry of Benjamin Shevili Nili Gold  5. Male Moralistic Messages to the Opposite Sex: Some preliminary observations on Singir, a genre of Javanese poetry Edwin Wieringa  6. 'Together with the Shell, They have Thrown Away the Kernel': Aharon Halle Wolfssohn's critique of Judaism during the Haskalah in Germany Jutta Strauss  7. The Uzbek Short Story Writer Firat's Adaptation of Religious Traditions Sigrid Kleinmichel  8. Kulturkampf in the Israeli Theatre: The issue of religion Dan Urian  9. Religion in Modern Persian Post-Revolutionary Prose Isabel Stümpel  10. Gender and Martyrdom in American Jewish Culture Sarah Horowitz  11. Islam, Gender and Hausa Literature Ousseina Alidou  12. The Writing of Rachel Morpurgo in Italy during the Emancipation Gabriella Moscati Steindler  13. The Quran in Modern Arabic Literature Shawkat Toorawa  14. The Religious Ideology of Avraham Goldfaden: Plays on biblical themes Joel Berkowitz  15. The Ecumenicalization of an Afro-Islamic Art: Swahili Literature in the Early Twentieth Century Atamin Mazrui  16. Between Eros and Dios: Leopoldo Azancot's Novia judia Stacy Beckwith

Biography

Glenda Abramson was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, educated in Israel and received her PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. From 1981 she has been teaching at the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford and at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Hilary Kilpatrick studied Arabic at Oxford. She has taught Arabic literature at universities in Scotland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. She is one of the editors of the journal Middle Eastern Literatures and has published on modern Arabic fiction and classical Arabic belles-lettres, including Making the Great Book of Songs (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).

'This book is a valuable source of knowledge on the subject of Jewish and Muslim writers confirming modernity. Explanatory rather than critical, and above all, objective, this book achieves genuine inter-faith understanding...This work being unique of its kind, it can be recommended for college graduates who will not easily find its broad perspective elsewhere.' - The Muslim World Book Review