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The Black Album

By Hanif Kureishi

الألبوم الأسود

Hanif Kureishi's novel of a British-Pakistani youth torn between 90s music culture and Islamists in London.

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1980199020002010

LiteratureMuslim minorities under non-Muslim ruleChildren and youth

Overview

The novel by Hanif Kureishi (1995): a British Muslim witness between his Pakistani family, his English wife and his friend, who is enchanted by a book that burns souls, against a fatwa resembling the Rushdie case. 1

Legacy

One of the first novels to enter the Muslim Asian Britain from within after the 'Satanic Verses' affair. 1

People and things also explored

Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Mooz-lum· Ms. Marvel· Babri Masjid· Integration and identity (al-indimaj wa-l-huwiyya)· The contemporary Islamic discourse — maturity versus reactivity· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Patriotism, nationalism and Arabness — the boundary with Islam

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Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)

Aljamia is the Spanish form of the Arabic al-'ajamiyya ('non-Arabic'), a term the Muslims of al-Andalus used for the Romance dialects of their northern neighbours, dialects coloured with Arabisms introduced from the 9th century by Mozarab emigrants. In the later Middle Ages the word came to mean Spanish written in Arabic script, and the literature in that script is called aljamiado.