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Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey

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From Epic to Novel

ISBN: 1403977569
ISBN 13: 9781403977564
Autor: Cayir, K
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxxv, 204 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.03.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

UNIQUE: This is the only study exploring Islamism and Islamic identities through Islamic novels in TurkeyORIGINAL ANALYSIS: By focusing on Islamic literary narratives of the period, this study introduces issues of change, space, history and analytical relation that are excluded by the essentialist reading of IslamismINTERDISCIPLINARY: This study links literary imaginations of Islamic agents to political and social processes of the 1980s and 1990s with its concern to search for how Islamic identity is narrated in novels, how Islamic actors tell stories about themselves and respond to stories told by others about themselves, and how Islamic actors interact with other actors and contexts. These are all pertinent questions to political and sociological processes of identity construction and vital in understanding Islamism and Islamic identitiesTIMELY: This book helps us to better understand the dynamics of Muslim societies

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Beschreibung

This book explores the changing understandings of Islam by focusing on the Islamist movement's production of literary fiction since the early 1980s. By focusing on Islamic literary narratives of the period, this study introduces issues of change, space, history and analytical relation that are excluded by the essentialist reading of Islamism.

Autorenporträt

KENAN CAYIR is Assistant Professor of sociology at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

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