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The novel by Leila Aboulela (2005): Najwa, a daughter of a rich Sudanese family, falls from the palace to the kitchen in London, and finds in the mosque community what she did not find in the palace. ¹

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Among the first English novels to show everyday Islam among migrants from within, without apology or self-praise. ¹

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.

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