A Muslim character’s refusal to explain can be a political contestation, not mere rigidity

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• Individual Muslim writers are not trapped by the interpretive frame that dominates their reception (similarity 0.86)
• Even anti-Islamophobic Muslim novels indirectly accept the frame they oppose. (similarity 0.85)
• Arabist and Islamic studies resisted the revision that reformed other area studies (similarity 0.83)
• The native-informer dynamic lets writers simultaneously acknowledge and deny their Muslim origins (similarity 0.83)
• Medieval writers classified Muslim followers as monstrous races and devil minions. (similarity 0.83)
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• States repeatedly fail to suppress Muslim women’s self-determined resistance. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamic Orientalists turned alienation into superiority rather than self-understanding (similarity 0.82)
• Literature resists Islamophobic universalism by structuring feeling and imagining alternative experiences (similarity 0.82)
• Even failed portrayals of Muslim extremism expose the West’s own comforting fairytales (similarity 0.82)
• Specific meaning arises only from an arbitrary contingent break (similarity 0.82)
• Global fiction contests Islamophobia by refusing the clash-of-civilizations model (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian writers erased the Nubian-Sudanese distinction under one stereotype (similarity 0.82)
• Crusade-era rhetoric called Muslims an accursed race utterly alienated from God. (similarity 0.81)