![]() ![]() In addition to tracking the era of rebuilding that immediately followed East Pakistan's 1971 uprising, The Good Muslim also jumps forward to the early 1980s, and ends with another mass rebellion. "Is it the practicing Muslim? Is it his sister, who's very progressive and areligious?" "The book is sort of asking the reader to challenge that notion of what is a good Muslim," Anam says. As Sohail turns more to traditional Islamist teachings in the wake of the revolution, his sister Maya becomes a progressive social activist, creating an escalating conflict between the two a decade later. ![]() The book follows a family in Bangladesh in 1972, at the end of Pakistan's brutal civil war. "And as you read the book, you can ask yourself which of the characters is the good Muslim." "The title is meant to ask a question," Anam tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer from the BBC's studios in London. And the family at the center of her novel struggles with their country's new identity as well as their own. Tahmima Anam's new book, The Good Muslim, showcases a time well before the Arab Spring, in the aftermath of Bangladesh's war of independence. How do citizens start over after the rush of revolution? Months after uprisings in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, we can watch that question play out - in different stages - across the Middle East. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Keywords: Tahmima Anam The Good Muslim Talal Asad the secular Bangladeshi writing in English INTRODUCTION The Good Muslim, written by Bangladeshi-born British writer, Tahmima Anam, is a novel of ideas (Chambers, 2015, p. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Good Muslim Subtitle A Novel Author Tahmima Anam ![]()
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