About the Book: Believing and Belonging
Believing and Belonging: Critical Essays on British Muslim Fiction, a
collection of eleven critical articles, examines at length the articulation of
the raging issues of identity, terrorism, gender parity, diaspora and
co-existence in the novels of these contemporary British Muslim novelists: Leila
Aboulela, Robin Yasin Kassab, Monica Ali, Qaisra Shahraz, Mohsin Hamid and
Sarfraz Manzoor. The volume focusses on these Muslim writers espousal of the
cause of Islam and Muslims and on their attempts at the recontextualization
between modernity and Islam. Islam is the largest religion in the United Kingdom
after Christianity, occupying around 4.4 per cent of the entire population.