Millennial Muslims in Lebanese-Australian Literature: Pure and Vernacular Religion in the Bildungsromane of Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Omar Sakr

Ibrahim Abraham

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Chapter 6 Millennial Muslims in Lebanese-Australian Literature

Pure and Vernacular Religion in the Bildungsromane of Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Omar Sakr

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Pages:: 109–131

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004737372_007

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Contemporary Lebanese-Australian Bildungsromane shed light on the complexity and diversity of Muslim identity, belief, and practice in contemporary Australia. Focusing primarily on the ambiguously autobiographical work of Omar Sakr and Michael Mohammed Ahmad, and drawing on the literary theory of Franco Moretti and the sociology of Olivier Roy, this chapter argues that millennial Muslims are coming of age into unstable societies and identities. As contemporary Lebanese-Australian literature bears witness to the entropy of vernacular religious practices, Islam becomes fragmentary, individualistic, and illusive; and as contemporary Australian culture comes under the influence of American politics of recognition, millennial Muslims oscillate between racialised collective identities and the hegemonic politics of self-emancipation in which the individual is sovereign overall.

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Muslims in Contemporary Australia

Series: Muslim Minorities, Volume: 47

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004737372

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 20 Oct 2025

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- Middle East and Islamic Studies

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