Abstract
‘Halal’ Fiction and The Politics of Faith-Driven Praxis: A Critical Reading of Leila Aboulela’s The Translator
Highlights
Rae’s openness and intimate knowledge of the Arab world is a mirror image of Sammar’s grim determination to thoroughly live out her Muslim faith while reaching across the religious and racial aisles to display tolerance and acceptance of diversity
Using Leila Aboulela’s signal novel, The Translator, as a stepping-stone, I set out in this research paper to address ‘Halal fiction’ as an articulation of a faith-driven praxis, whose bearing on matters such as courtship between partners of different faiths cum identity construction against a background of immigration, bears testimony
Leila Aboulela graduated from the London School of Economics with a Master’s degree in Statistics
Summary
Rae’s openness and intimate knowledge of the Arab world is a mirror image of Sammar’s grim determination to thoroughly live out her Muslim faith while reaching across the religious and racial aisles to display tolerance and acceptance of diversity. Sammar exemplifies this point big time in her numerous one-on-ones with Rae during which she strives flat out to gauge Rae’s frame of reference with a view to seeing if they are cut out for each other.
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