An analysis of a hundred prominent, commercially successful works by women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, concerning Muslim living in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the UK and the USA.

Introduction: A Party with a Hundred Women; On Dialogue, Orientalism and Women's Writing Not Without My Daughter A Hundred Women A Note on Generalisation The Hundred-Woman Party Chapter One: Travellers' Tales: A Typology Forms of Writing Women Writing to Women The Political in the Apolitical Writing about Women's Writing Chapter Two: Author and Self Travelling with an Orientalist Writer Other Voices: Ghost Writers Other Voices: Women Walking in Lawrence's Footsteps Motivations Dangerous Words: Violence and Writing Celebrity and Its Discontents Talking Cure Self and Other Writing as a Woman Western Writing, Muslim Writing The Muslim Writer as Individual Chapter Three: The Politics of Time and Space: A Fractured Modernity A Note on Definitions: Modernity and the Modern Exploring the Past Old Futures, New Pasts Past, Present and Future A Fractured Modernity The Public, the Private and the Global On Jane Austen and the Goon Show Chapter Four: Voyages in Manistan: The Female Traveller and the Secret Woman The Orientalists' Secret Saadawi: the Epistemological Break The New East: the Turn to Horror Beyond the Horror: the Secret Dancing Watching the Western Women Secrecy and Dialogue Love as Dialogue Chapter Five: Islam: Return Journeys The Rise of Islam New Muslims Islam from the Inside Mecca Islam and Modernity Chapter Six: Towards Dialogue? From 9/11 to Reading Lolita Four Journeys on the Road to Dialogue Conclusion A Hundred Answers At the Crossroads Goodbye to Orientalism