Confronting Myths of Difference: Fundamentalism, Religion and Globalization in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist

This article explores the nexus between Islam and the West as expressed through the American Muslim writer Mohsin Hamid. Where Muslims from outside the US are comfortable in assessing their position and that of their fellow believers from the relatively safe environment of ‘other’, this analysis hop...

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Main Author: Gay, David (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2011
In: Religious studies and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-70
Further subjects:B Muslim American
B Globalization
B western civilization
B Fundamentalism
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