Pillars of Light: Exploring Muslim Cultures

Volume 8 Number 1

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• Contents

  • EDITORIAL

    • Shirley Chew

  • FICTION

    • Anand, Kabadi

      Translated from Malayalam by K.M. Sherrif

    • Abir Hamdar, The Hole Beside Her Lady Zainab
    • Aamer Hussein, From Another Gulmohar Tree – In Second Place
    • Hamid Ismailov, From Two Lost to Life

      Translated from Uzbek and Russian, by Irina Buss-Zolotareva, with the author

  • INTERVIEW

    • Amina Yaqin, An Interview with Mohsin Hamid

  • POETRY

    • Adonis, Three Poems

      Translated from Arabic by Shawkat M. Toorawa

    • Robert Chandler, The Singer, Master
    • Joolz Denby, Pillars of Light 166
    • Khadijah Ibrahiim, Paradise, Days Unfold a New Beginning
    • Jeffrey Wainwright, Zephira Poems
    • Tim Youngs, Dialogue

  • ARTICLES

    • Simon Broughton, Sufi Soul
    • Sheila R. Canby, The Jade Terrapin in the British Museum: Context and Meaning
    • Shusha Guppy, Identity and Aspiration
    • Salima Hashmi, From the Margins to the Mainstream
    • Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Sheikh-ul-Alam, Zainab, Ishmael, Shahid: Emotion, Authority, and Islam in Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetry
    • Javed Majeed, Islamic Hellenism and Selfhood in the Poetry and Thought of Muhammad Iqbal
    • Anshuman Mondal, Multiculturalism and Islam: Some Thoughts on a Difficult Relationship
    • Nima Poovaya-Smith, Pillars of Light: Exploring Muslim Cultures
    • Barnaby Rogerson, Lifting the Seven Veils
    • Kadija Sesay, Growing up in a ‘ChrisMus’ Household

  • REVIEWS

  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS