Table of Contents

Contents

Abbreviations and Textual Notes

Introduction: Islam and Transcultural Literature

Islam, Migration and Home: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

Pilgrimage and Hajj: V. S. Naipaul’s Among the Believersand Beyond Belief, and Ilija Trojanow’s Zu den Heiligen Quellen des Islam

Male Perspectives from the ‘Margins of Society’: Feridun Zaimoğlu’s Kanak Sprak and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album

Female Perspectives from the ‘Margins of Society’: Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s MutterZunge, Feridun Zaimoğlu’s Koppstoff, and Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and Minaret

Conclusion: Islam and its Audience

Bibliography