The representation of Arab Muslim women in jean sasson's: princess, sultana's daughters, sultana's circle

Abstract EN

In this paper, we proposed to analyze Jean Sasson's trilogy: Princess, Princess Sultana's Daughters, and Sultana's Circle as feminist works to test whether non-fiction enables us to have a deeper understanding of how the situation of Arab Muslim women is simultaneously determined by religion or culture? Drawing on a framework that positions the representation of Arab Muslim women at the center of both cultural and postcolonial feminist theories this study undertook an analytic method.

The results revealed that these novels are filled with contradictions and stereotypes about Arab people and culture.

Therefore, the trilogy gives a far more complicated image of Arab Muslim women's position to Western readers, who relate women's plight to Islam as a religion.