Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights

Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2015) Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights. In: The International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and Education 2015 (ICLLCE 2015), 25-26 April 2015, University College Sabah Foundation, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

In this paper, I intend to look at Doris Lessing’s thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights and locate possible commonalities between Islam and her ideas. She is considered a humanist, secular writer of great stature and the ‘grande dame’ of British writing of her time, and she handles explicit sexual relationships especially in The Golden Notebook (1962). Hence, a sense of remoteness and incomprehension is, perhaps, palpable in any attempt to establish profound affinities between Islam and this Nobel laureate, or to dare to discover an ‘Islamic Doris Lessing’. However, given her reputation as an author known for her courage and outspokenness and for making unconventional moves and iconoclastic statements sometimes at the expense of her reputation as a formidable literary talent, it will be interesting to see how Islam views her ideas on some specific issues. It is in this spirit that, in this paper I will explore how Lessing’s views on education, literature, racism and women’s rights can be discussed in a classroom setting in line with the Islamization and integration of knowledge undertaking at such an Islamic university as International Islamic University Malaysia.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Additional Information:	6409/42783
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Doris Lessing, Islamic feminism, women and Islam, anti-feminism, The Golden Notebook, integration of knowledge, Lessing and racism, Lessing and misogyny
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc > BP1 Islam > BP160 General works on Islam L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of English Language & Literature
Depositing User:	Dr. Md. Mahmudul Hasan
Date Deposited:	25 May 2015 10:22
Last Modified:	20 Jun 2018 09:19
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/42783

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