Zaheera Jina (ed.), Saffron: A Collection of Personal Narratives by Muslim Women. South Africa: African Perspectives Publishing, 2018. Pp288, ZAR240 ISBN PRINT: 978-0-6399187-2-3 ISBN DIGITAL: 978-0-6399187-3-0

Abstract

Saffron is the second instalment in a series of compendia that capture narratives of Muslim women’s lived realities within the South African context. It follows and expands upon the theme of marriage which is introduced in the title of its precursor, Riding the Samoosa Express: Personal Narratives of Marriage and Beyond (2015). Suggestively titled, Saffron, A Collection of Personal Narratives by Muslim Women, as its evocative spice namesake infers, aims to entice its readers with a multi-sensorial journey into Muslim women’s intimate spaces of nourishment, tradition and creativity. The anthology focuses on the theme of marriage by presenting experientially diverse and subjectively fragmented narratives of Muslim women that carefully interweave critical, at times advisory, and also satirical reflections of self, family, faith and food...