'Campus novels so often involve a coming-of-age: the formative years of young adulthood are spent within the confines of institutions, with their unspoken political and social structures ripe for exploration, particularly those of morality, ethics, gender and sex. University as a microcosm of the broader world is the setting of Zeynab Gamieldien’s debut novel The Scope of Permissibility, which expands the genre to focus on a group of devout Muslim students’ experience of love, life and friendship in Sydney.' (Introduction)