Representation of British Muslim identities in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Nadeem Aslam’s maps for lost lovers/

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Representation of British Muslim identities in Contemporary British fiction is a thriving field of research. With the aim of contributing to this field, this study brings together two contemporary novels, Minaret (2005) by Leila Aboulela, where the novel presents a very monolithic and closed understanding of religion, and Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam, which is critical of religious fundementalism. Reading them aganist the background of significant events such as The Rushdie Affair, and “halal fiction”, the thesis emphazises the diversity British Muslim fiction writers are promising. Even though liberal, secular authors seem to be dominating the literary scene and thus determing the representation of British Muslim identities, reading Minaret and Maps in dialogue with each other, shows how British Muslim identities are in fact nuanced, complex and fluid.

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Muslim women, Pakistanis, Sudanese, English literature., English fiction.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/24223

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N. Koç, “Representation of British Muslim identities in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Nadeem Aslam’s maps for lost lovers/,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2014.