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Muslim English Literature
Published by Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
ISSN : 29617502     EISSN : 29628199     DOI : -
Core Subject : Religion, Education,
Religion Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media
Muslim English Literature specializes in Muslim World Literature including US-Muslim, British-Muslim, Asian-Muslim, and other Muslim cultures and literature; and is intended to communicate original research and current issues on the subject. This journal warmly welcomes contributions from scholars of related disciplines, including Linguistics and Cultural Studies related to the Muslim world.
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The Negotiation of Egyptian-American Identity in Miral Al-Tahawy's Brooklyn Heights Syah, Ahfa Rahman; Damayanti, Fina
Muslim English Literature Vol 3, No 2 (2024): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v3i2.43370

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This study aims to determine the problems and identity negotiations carried out by the protagonist, Hend, in the novel Miral al-Tahawy’s Brooklyn Heights. It is a qualitative research with descriptive analysis method by using Robert Stanton's Narrative Structure theory to show the main issues of the novel and Stuart Hall's identity theory to show Hend's identity negotiation. The results showed that the protagonist in her migration from Egypt to America experienced various identity problems, namely longing for the homeland, alienation, and identity crisis. All these problems encourage the protagonist to create efforts to negotiate between her past and present in several forms; using English to show her position as an American, carrying out dating traditions, drinking beer, dancing tango, and wearing open clothes. Hend's identity in America is not dominant to one side. She becomes half Arab and half American (a hybrid identity). The research also found that her romantic needs for an American man became the starting point of this American negotiation that can be considered as identity negotiation to claim her rights as an Egyptian-American, whose identity tends to be excluded from American citizens regardless the fact that she is American, but not white mainstream society.
The Imagined Ladyland in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream Khatun, Mst. Rokeya; Ahammed, A. K. Zunayet
Muslim English Literature Vol 3, No 2 (2024): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v3i2.42291

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This study investigates the imagined Ladyland in Sultana's Dream to show Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s vision of women’s empowerment and emancipation. The Ladyland epitomizes the triumph of the scientific, righteous, progressive and benevolent ingenuity in women. It also serves as a symbol of women empowerment, and a critique of colonialism and patriarchy. In the Ladyland, there is no patriarchy, and only matriarchy prevails. While women avail all the rights, needs, and privileges, the women living in Rokeya’s society are deprived of all these. They are confined to the domestic domain whereas men work outdoors. Therefore, to take women out of their shells, the writer emphasizes the necessity of empowering women through modern education and social reform. This article employs a qualitative descriptive method to provide a detailed textual analysis of the Ladyland and the Feminist Literary Theory to analyze the portrayal of the Ladyland which advocates for the emancipation of women of colonial East Bengal and beyond from the clutches of patriarchy and other traditional constraints through their empowerment, to build up a more equitable society. This study continues to make a significant contribution to world literature, offering future researchers valuable insights, ideas, and viewpoints on the writer and her works. 
Muslim Youth: Prejudice and Responses in Saadia Faruqi’s Yusuf Azeem is not a Hero Teguh, Ayudya Salsabila; Zakky, Akhmad; Oktafiyani, Elve
Muslim English Literature Vol 3, No 2 (2024): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v3i2.42640

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This research aims to investigate the prejudice experienced by young Muslims in the United States and examine their responses as portrayed in Saadia Faruqi’s Yusuf Azeem is not a Hero (2021). The writers use close textual analysis in analyzing the primary text to examine the prejudice and responses portrayed by the young Muslims in the novel. In doing so, the writers employ Gordon Allport's theory of prejudice to comprehend the prejudice experienced by young Muslims and Simpson & Yinger's theory of response to prejudice to examine the responses of young Muslims. The results of the analysis reveal that young Muslim-Americans experience prejudice in various forms, which affects their social lives and shapes their identities. Their responses to this prejudice also vary, depending on the specific situation, their personal experiences, and their understanding of the 9/11 tragedy. Thus, responses were seen in the form of resistance and negotiation of their identities. This study reveals that the 9/11 tragedy significantly impacted the Muslim community, especially Muslim youth who did not experience the tragedy but being subjected to discrimination and physical violence.
The Dark Sides of Immigrants in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Wati, Dhiviya Syares; Malik, Khansa Humaira; Sulistiawati, Yuni; Tayem, Nada
Muslim English Literature Vol 3, No 2 (2024): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v3i2.30118

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This study focuses on the impact of immigration on immigrants, especially Muslim women or Muslimah, by engaging with a postcolonial study working within the framework of gender and immigration and using a close textual analysis. The researchers use a qualitative research method to reveal the reasons Moroccan women decide to illegally immigrate to Spain in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (2005), investigated to reveal what it means to be Muslimah immigrants crossing the Moroccan sea to live in Spain. The data collected is in the form of quotes, narratives, and discourse from the primary text and the secondary sources. The storyline of this novel revolves around unlawful (illegal) immigrants from Morocco to Spain. This novel is about the struggles of four Moroccan immigrants who have no place and space to live either in their homeland or in the host land. In this study, the theme of 'immigrant Muslimah' leads researchers to the conclusion that the novel uses the dark sides of being immigrants who have the desire to reject white officers and politicians who tend to blame immigrant Muslimah as a problem instead of the victim of global transitional capitalism and ‘patriarchism’. 
Inspecting Zara's Advertisement Campaign amidst Gaza Conflict and Its Global Backlash Nisa, Rahmatun; Aini, Azka Nurul; Syahriyani, Alfi
Muslim English Literature Vol 3, No 2 (2024): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v3i2.42587

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This study investigates the controversial Zara advertisement campaign released during the Gaza conflict and analyzes its global backlash. Using Kress and Van Leeuwen’s visual theory, the research explores its representational, interpersonal, and compositional dimensions. Text findings reveal that representationally, the advertisement features culturally significant symbols: a white cloth signifying death in Palestinian culture and a kaffiyeh symbolizing resistance. Interpersonally, it positions viewers as passive observers, evoking discomfort, and pity, while textually, it emphasizes symbolic representation with stark contrasts and strategic framing. The advertisement’s release during heightened tensions led many to perceive it as exploitative and culturally insensitive, despite some defenses of artistic expression. Public reactions, particularly on social media, highlighted the ethical challenges of such campaigns. The study questions the campaign for violating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) principles by disregarding ethical considerations and societal well-being. It underscores the importance of cultural sensitivity in global marketing, advocating for ethical advertising that respect global diverse audiences.  
Freud's Mourning and Melancholia and Arissa’s Loss and Grief in Shaila Abdullah’s Saffron Dreams Setiawan, Badrani Tatsbita Aqwiya; Ali, Bulan Ramadhani; Tanjung, Anita Anastasyah; Elzieny, Asmaa Muhammad Othman
Muslim English Literature Vol 3, No 2 (2024): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v3i2.30035

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This research aims to discover the mourning and melancholia that the main character, Arissa, experiences in Shaila Abdullah’s Saffron Dreams (2009). By using close textual analysis, we investigate the ideas of loss and grief as well as the struggles of Arissa lives in the US and how she solves her problems. This research engages with Sigmund Freud’s theory that discusses about mourning and melancholia in Abdullah’s novel. The findings reveal that Faizan's death was the beginning of the problems faced by Arissa. She felt unable to live forward because she felt her world collapsed immediately and her dreams had vanished together with Faizan's death. In this novel, Arissa's melancholia appears whenever memories of Faizan come, and it affects her mind. However, the relationship between mourning and melancholia is formed due to Faizan's sudden death in the 9/11 tragedy in the Unites States, and the birth and presence of Raian have relieved Arissa's sorrowful and miserable since Faizan's death. Moreover, Raian is a significant factor in eliminating Arissa’s mourning and melancholia in the novel. Thus, Abdullah’s novel can be used an example to understand Freud’s mourning and melancholia that the protagonist’s experiences and struggles to solve her conflict within herself and beyond as a Muslimah-American who struggles to survive because of mourning and melancholia after 9/11.
Writing the Sacred from Within in Richard Burton’s A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah Usmani, Raeesabegam; Mehta, Kunjal Malvik
Muslim English Literature Vol 4, No 1 (2025): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v4i1.46247

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The West has shown the utmost curiosity for the Middle East's culture, tradition, society, and the Hajj pilgrimage. This region was considered the least explored on the world map until the nineteenth century. Over the decades, a handful of adventurers and explorers have undertaken various perilous journeys to find answers and satisfy the inquisitiveness of a larger, knowledge-thirsty populace. Travel writing, Hajj pilgrimage travel writing, can still not be considered an established area of study. This paper aims to highlight the pilgrimage travelogues of the nineteenth century by drawing scholarly attention to the genre of Hajj pilgrimage travel writing, its significance, and the need for more academic attention. The paper critically analyses Sir Richard Burton’s travelogue A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah (1855), which recounts his journey to the cities of Mecca and Medina and the Hajj pilgrimage from the nineteenth century. He undertook the Hajj pilgrimage in disguise as a Muslim pilgrim, a journey fraught with numerous challenges and dangers. The paper primarily critically analyses the motivations of this so-called pilgrim from the West, his reflections on the Oriental society, culture, religious sites, and life in the Middle East, along with the challenges he faced during this perilous journey. It also critically examines how he attempted to reconcile his Englishness with an adopted Muslim guise or identity and its impact on the narration and description in the travelogue. 
Urdu Diaspora in Canada: Unveiling the Transnational Experiences through Jawaid Danish’s Hijarat Ke Tamashey Chapparban, Sajaudeen Nijamodeen; Shaheen, Shugufta
Muslim English Literature Vol 4, No 1 (2025): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v4i1.47208

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Urdu Diaspora can be defined as the socio-cultural formation of the Urdu-speaking community in transnational spaces, which has migrated chiefly from the Urdu-speaking regions in India and Pakistan to various global destinations, including the EU, the Americas, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, African countries, and Gulf nations. The present paper endeavours to provide a concise overview of the global Urdu diaspora with special reference to the South Asian and specifically Indian Urdu-speaking Diaspora community in Canada. It also intends to describe the fundamental characteristics of the Urdu diaspora in relation to the other classical patterns of global diasporas. It applies literary analysis to the transnational experiences of the South Asians as depicted in the works of Indo-Canadian writer and playwright Jawaid Danish's literary work – cum – performance, Hijrat Ke Tamashey (Plays of Migrations). It is a collection of various plays based on the lives of immigrants in Canada. Danish is also popular for his solo play “Dastan Hijraton Ki” (Story of Migration). This story is a Dastan/goi, a traditional form of Urdu storytelling. The present qualitative research seeks to shed light on the multifaceted aspects of lived experiences, memories, the anguish of displacement, notions of belonging, and the challenges encountered by Indian and Pakistani Urdu-speaking communities during the transition into a different socio-cultural setting.  It aims to draw parallels between the American dream and the Canadian dream, as well as the hardships associated with both. Furthermore, this study seeks to underscore the pivotal role played by the diaspora in preserving and promoting the Urdu language, literature, identity, and cultural heritage in transnational space concerning Canada. 
Muslimah Mimicry and Cultural Adaptation in Hala Film (2019) Nisa, Rahmatun; Farlina, Nina
Muslim English Literature Vol 4, No 1 (2025): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v4i1.47723

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This research examines the functions of mimicry in cultural adaptation strategy in the Muslimah or Muslim woman character in the Hala movie (2019). The study employs a qualitative research approach, analyzing the film’s narrative, dialogue, and visual elements through Homi K. Bhabha’s postcolonial theory of mimicry and Jens Eder’s theory of film character. The findings of this research are that Hala, as a Muslimah protagonist and a second-generation Pakistani Muslim Immigrant living in America, used the language, attire, behaviour, and mindset of American culture to balance the freedoms of American society. However, her imitation results in Muslim cultural ambivalence, as she is neither fully American nor entirely Muslimah Pakistani. This duality creates internal conflict, familial tensions, and an identity crisis. The study highlights mimicry as a survival strategy and a source of psychological turmoil, contributing to the broader discourse on second-generation Muslimah immigrant identity and postcolonial studies.
Binary Oppositions in Atia Abawi’s A Land of Permanent Goodbyes Ghazali, Meka Mona; Oktafiyani, Elve
Muslim English Literature Vol 4, No 1 (2025): Muslim English Literature
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/mel.v4i1.47202

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This research explores the binary opposition between the East and the West in A Land of Permanent Goodbyes and analyzes how these oppositions reinforce Edward W. Said's Orientalism. The method of the research is using a qualitative descriptive method by identifying, interpreting, and describing specific passages from the novel to examine the depiction of Muslim identity in the limited frame of Western perceptions. Said’s theory serves as the theoretical framework for this research. The findings reveal that the binary opposition between the East and the West creates stereotypes in which the East, often associated with Islam, is portrayed as inferior, while the West is depicted as superior to maintain white supremacy. This aligns with Said’s argument that Orientalist discourse creates a biased understanding of the East, positioning the West as the standard against which the East and, by extension, Islam are measured in old-fashioned ways. As a result, the narrator appears to adopt an Orientalist viewpoint, representing Islamic traditions as backward while portraying the West as a symbol of rationality and progress to maintain colonial manners. Such representations lead to a perception in which the Islamic world is seen as falling behind the West in terms of both culture and civilization. These stereotypes, rooted in Orientalism, also affect how Muslims view themselves in Western society. 

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