Islam and Contemporary European Literature

Kersten, Carool

Edinburgh University Press（2025/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474492676
• DDC分類 809.894

Full Description

This book uses literary texts featuring themes and references related to Islam and the Muslim world to offer new perspectives on non-Western intellectual history and contemporary European literature. Shifting from abstraction to sublimation by highlighting individualized interpretations of religion by authors from both Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds, it asks how and why present-day European authors, from Albania, France, Germany, Spain and the former Yugoslavia, write fiction or fictionalized works that engage with Islamic religious themes and Europe's Islamic past. This thematic focus contributes to the interrogation of Eurocentric understandings of literary canons and points out ways of decolonizing the curriculum in the humanities by reading contemporary European literature through the lens of cosmopolitanism, cultural hybridity and in-betweenness.

Contents

Acknowledgements
A Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction: Studying Islam through Literature

1. West-Eastern Affinities
2. Double Genealogies
3. Andalusian-Islamic Footprints
4. Europe's Ottoman Past
5. New Humanisms

Final Thoughts: Everything is Connected

Notes
Bibliography
Index