Published: 2024-03-19

Islam and the Thanatoethics of Sacrifice

Reading Qurbani in the post-9/11 Climate in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil

Sk Sagir Ali
Abstract

The Prophet Muhammad (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) once said that whoever is capable of performing qurbani (Muslim charitable giving) but does...

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Expansions of the Real

A Study of Climate Change Realism in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island

Sten Moslund
Abstract

This article explores the challenges posed by the Anthropocene and climate change to human perceptions of reality and the need to revise...

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The Ambivalence of Revolutionary Cleaning in Mona Prince's Revolution is My Name

Nada Ayad
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Egyptian writer Mona Prince’s self-published 2012 memoir Revolution is My Name abounds with descriptions of transferring Tahrir Square...

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