Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ahmed Ali and the Emergence of Muslim Fiction in English
2. Voices of Their Own: Pioneering Muslim Women Writers
3. Dissecting Dictators: Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame
4. The Qur'anic Paradigm and the Renarration of Empire: Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise
5. Exilic Contexts, Ambivalent Affiliations: M. G. Vassanji and Adib Khan
6. Crisis Reading/Reading Crisis: The Polemics of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
7. Muslim Women's Autobiographical Narratives: Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass and Che Husna Azhari's The Rambutan Orchard
8. Arab-Muslim Feminism and the Narrative of Hybridity: The Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index