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Noor (play)

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Written by
  
Akbar Ahmed

Original language
  
English

Playwright
  
Akbar S. Ahmed

Date premiered
  
2007

First performance
  
2007

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Characters
  
Abdullah Daoud Father Assad Hussein Ali Three soldiers Sheikh Moinuddin Disciple Deputy Minister Flunky Auntie Fatima Fadel Noor

Place premiered
  
Theater J Washington, D.C.

Subject
  
Soldiers abduct Noor, a Muslim woman; Noor's three brothers debate what to do.

Aaj bazar main poet faiz ahmad faiz nayyara noor by roothmens


Noor is a two-act play by Akbar Ahmed about the abduction of a young woman named Noor and her three brothers who represent currents inside modern Muslim communities: a Sufi, a secular government bureaucrat, and an angry fundamentalist.

Contents

Mujh se pehli si mohabat noor jahan faiz ahmad faiz by roothmens


Characters

Main characters
  • Abdullah (oldest brother, professor, idealistic Sufi)
  • Daoud (middle brother, medical doctor, hardened religious literalist)
  • Ali (youngest brother, lawyer and government bureaucrat, relatively secular)
  • Father (Assad Hussain)
  • Auntie Fatima (father's sister)
  • Noor (youngest sibling, a bright college student)

    • Secondary characters

    References

    Noor (play) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA