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  Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories (African Writers Series No. 271) (Paperback) By (author) Alifa Rifaat, Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies

  

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  Short Description for Distant View of a Minaret and Other StoriesThis collection of short stories admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque. The book provides accounts of death, the lives of women in purdah and the frustrations of everyday life.
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  • Publisher: Heinemann
  • Published: 01 April 1987
  • Format: Paperback 128 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780435909123 ISBN 10: 0435909126
  • Sales rank: 343,167

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• More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society. Her writing articulates a subtle revolt against, and a sympathetic insight into, the place of women in the essentially male-dominated Islamic environment. Change, development, and understanding are called for but the invocation is couched in specifically Arab terms; her inspiration lies not in the Women's Movement of the West but remains within a strictly religious, even Orthodox Qur'anic framework.