Cosmopolitanism and the Scottish working-class writer : John Parkinson/Yehya-en-Nasr and Islam in Ayrshire

Blair, Kirstie (2022) Cosmopolitanism and the Scottish working-class writer : John Parkinson/Yehya-en-Nasr and Islam in Ayrshire. Studies in Scottish Literature, 48 (1). pp. 71-82. ISSN 2690-375X (https://doi.org/10.51221/sc.ssl.2022.48.1.8)

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Abstract

Explores the grassroots cosmopolitan and international literary interests of Scottish working-class writers, through the writing of the Scottish poet and convert to Islam John Parkinson or "Yehya-en-Nasr" (1874-1918), in the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, in the monthly The Islamic World and the weekly newspaper The Crescent, as a journalist in Rangoon, and in book form, notably his Lays of Love and War (Ardrossan, n.d.), arguing that Parkinson's "Muslim cosmopolitanism" and his local Ayrshire identity and contexts were inextricably intertwined.

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