Two Souls in Search of an Oasis
This paper studies the quest for self and identity in the works of Muhammad Asad and Kamala Das (known as Kamala Surayya after she embraced Islam) from a broadly comparative perspective. The first section discusses this theme in the context of Muhammad Asad’s epochal The Road to Mecca, and the seco...
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oai:doaj.org-article:6f9f1245fae74d8b9768cc06d5cab13a2021-12-02T17:49:41ZTwo Souls in Search of an Oasis10.35632/ajis.v25i2.3982690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/6f9f1245fae74d8b9768cc06d5cab13a2008-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/398https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 This paper studies the quest for self and identity in the works of Muhammad Asad and Kamala Das (known as Kamala Surayya after she embraced Islam) from a broadly comparative perspective. The first section discusses this theme in the context of Muhammad Asad’s epochal The Road to Mecca, and the second section focuses on the poems of Kamala Das. I explore how these two authors, belonging to two disparate geographical and cultural milieus, found refuge in Islamic monotheism from the existential crisis that haunts modern humanity. Umer O. ThasneemInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 25, Iss 2 (2008) |
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This paper studies the quest for self and identity in the works of Muhammad Asad and Kamala Das (known as Kamala Surayya after she embraced Islam) from a broadly comparative perspective. The first section discusses this theme in the context of Muhammad Asad’s epochal The Road to Mecca, and the second section focuses on the poems of Kamala Das. I explore how these two authors, belonging to two disparate geographical and cultural milieus, found refuge in Islamic monotheism from the existential crisis that haunts modern humanity.
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