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Literature Refugees, migrants and diaspora Muslim minorities under non-Muslim rule

Overview

The novel by al-Tayib Salih (1966): the return of Mustafa Sa'id from London to a Sudanese village on the Nile, after years in which he embodied what the West wanted, and the tragedy of the encounter between coloniser and colonised is revealed. ¹

Legacy

It was chosen among the hundred most important novels in history and was translated as 'Season of Migration to the North'; it is taught as a foundational text of postcolonial literature. ¹

People and things also explored

Integration and identity (al-indimaj wa-l-huwiyya)· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· The Edge of Heaven· Ali: Fear Eats the Soul· Almanya: Welcome to Germany· Brick Lane· My Son the Fanatic· Limbo

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islam.museum contributors. “Season of Migration to the North”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/musim-al-hijra-ila-al-shamal/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.

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Integration and identity (al-indimaj wa-l-huwiyya)

Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy's view of how a believer integrates into a society that is not wholly Muslim while keeping his characteristics and identity, following the experience of the first Muslims, as set out in his example of the egg, the carrot and the coffee bean.