Faith as Refuge: Female migration in Leila Aboulela’s Novels

Abstract

In most of her works, the Sudanese-British novelistLeila Aboulela deals with the situation of Muslim Sudanese females in exile.Shechallenges the imbalance of the relationship betweenexile, in which the protagonists experience a sense of displacement, andthe Islamic identitywhich, in the end, serves as a substitute for the far away homeland.This article attempts to discuss how faithbecame the rock in a tumultuous world where identitiesare tested and re-constructed.