Abstract
This paper emphasizes Muslim women's voices in their search for religious freedom as well as their attempts to assert their religious identity in the secularized western society .I aim to discuss two novels by two literary Muslim women writers: Laila Aboulela's Minaret ( 2005)and Shelina Janmuhammed's Love in a Head scarf (2009). These two writers refuse to see Islam in a western eye ,and they refuse the many labels and stereotypes of Muslim women who live in a secularized society. They both agree that Islam as an instrument of empowerment in the life of Muslim female characters living in Europe. They present a new image of Muslim woman whose religion frees her of all the cultural and societal traditions .
Highlights
In popular western culture Muslim woman is the veiled woman
You should get educated and learn some proper values like we have developed in Europe"(Janmuhamed p. 138)
Aboulela and Janmuhamed examine the one-dimensional perspective of Islam and Muslims women
Summary
In popular western culture Muslim woman is the veiled woman. For the westerners , the veil refers to exoticism, oppression and backwardness of Islam .In the media Muslim women are presented as slaves or they are seen only as sexual objects. Anwar does not fill the gap in her life and she , in her search to be more secure, begins to visits the mosque where she begins to feel like in Khartoum (Aboulela, Minaret ,p.244 ).
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