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Self and secrecy in early Islam /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khan, Ruqayya Yasmine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2008]
Series:Studies in comparative religion (Columbia, S.C.)
Subjects:
Islamic literature, Arabic > History and criticism.
Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Secrecy in literature.
Self in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Self and secrecy in the Qur'an
  • Sharing and withholding secrets: God, faith, and worship in the Qur'an
  • Self as cipher in Kitab kitman al-sirr (Book of concealing the secret)
  • The rhetoric of the secret: love, sexuality, and the body
  • Toward a literary archaeology of the private and the secret.