Murray Darroch's Website
Murray Darroch was born in 1949. He has always lived in New Zealand.
From 1968 until 1970 Murray attended the University of Canterbury. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with his major in history. Since 1971 he has lived in Wellington (the capital city of New Zealand). For most of that time he has been a Government civil servant.
Murray has a variety of interests – especially in international politics, human rights and world history. Although Murray was a practising Christian for nearly 50 years, he is now not a believer in any religion, but he is still a believer in the one true God. However his hope is Islam, Judaism and Christianity will each have a positive role to play in the world of the future. This hope is reflected in his novel “the ironstone meteorite of ALLAH”.
The full complete title of Murray Darroch’s novel is “the ironstone meteorite of ALLAH — a fictional story set in the times of ignorance.” This novel is set 3,500 years ago. It explores issues of gender equity within the context of the traditions of the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). It also attempts to answer the human dilemma about how to deal with the completing claims of revenge and forgiveness. The novel has been designed to appeal to an international readership from a range of different cultural traditions — and has been especially written for those who have learnt English as a second language.
If the author of this novel were to be a professed Muslim, then the novel’s plot and the novel's title would mean it would be classified as “Muslim fiction”, or as “Muslim literary fiction”, or as “Muslim fiction for adult readers”.
But it is not “Muslim fiction”, and also it is not “non-Muslim fiction”.
It is in the middle between both types of fiction — containing the best elements of both types of fiction. Hopefully it will appeal to both Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
Please see other pages of this website for more information about this novel.
This page was last reviewed in March 2010 and is current.