Wasafiri Issue 108
Featuring Bina Shah, Hamja Ahsan, Nisha Ramayya, Latifa Ayad and more, House of Wisdom: Libraries and Literatures of Islam collects writing that uses the libraries that were the hallmark of Islamicate empires around the globe as its cornerstone to reflect creatively and critically on Islamic literary culture.
Guest Edited by Rehana Ahmed and Nadia Atia
Editorial Libraries and Literatures of Islam
Interviews Ahdaf Soueif and Kamila Shamsie, Nur Sobers-Khan
Articles Archiving Islam in Nadeem Aslam’s Libraries; The Craft of the Catalogue in Sinan Antoon’s The Book of Collateral Damage; Libraries, Literature, and Literacy in Palestine; Restoring Medieval England’s Arabic Books to View
Art The Power of Books: Wafaa Bilal’s 168:01 and Edmund de Waal’s library of exile
Fiction Latifa Ayad, Mohammed Barber, Bina Shah
Poetry Moniza Alvi, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Zaffar Kunial, Alycia Pirmohamed, Nisha Ramayya
Life Writing Hamja Ahsan: The Library to Come
Review Essay Textual Responses to Muslim Migration and Displacement
Reviews Diana Darke, Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe; Caroline Rooney, Creative Radicalism in the Middle East: Culture and the Arab Left after the Uprisings; Samira Shackle, Karachi Vice; Sabina Akhtar, ed., Cut from the Same Cloth: Muslim Women on Life in Britain
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