This is not the same as saying that all writers of Muslim background everywhere produce texts that reinforce or are delimited by this frame. Clearly, Muslim writers choose topics and forms as varied as their own experiences. Here, however, I describe the dominant current mode of understanding texts that address or emerge from the Muslim world and find an audience outside it.

DEFINE: Clarifies the scope of the analytical frame being described — it is the dominant interpretive mode, not a universal feature of all Muslim writers' work.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 539