Leila Aeboula (1964-    ) is a Sudanese contemporary novelist. Her reputation as a pioneer of ‘halal fiction' and her classification as a multicultural and postcolonial writer are the main reasons for an investigation of her novels. She is mainly concerned with the conflict evident between cultures. She always tries to find a middle way out of these cultural encounters. Minaret is an embodiment of her thought. The researcher tries to relate Aboulela's views to the theories of cultural conflict in postcolonial and multicultural contemporary fiction