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DISTANT VIEW OF A MINARET
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| By: |
Alifa Rifaat, Denys Johnson-Davies |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0435909126 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780435909123 |
| Publisher: |
PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 1987 |
| Series: |
Heinemann African Writers Series |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Translated from: |
Arabic |
| Description: |
This collection of short stories admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque. The book provides accounts of death, the lives of women in purdah and the frustrations of everyday life. |
| Synopsis: |
More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society. Her writing articulates a subtle revolt against, and a sympathetic insight into, the place of women in the essentially male-dominated Islamic environment. Change, development, and understanding are called for but the invocation is couched in specifically Arab terms; her inspiration lies not in the Women's Movement of the West but remains within a strictly religious, even Orthodox Qur'anic framework. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Heinemann |
| Returns: |
Returnable |