Islam and Contemporary European Literature

AvCarool Kersten

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474492683

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Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Islam inom Filosofi och religion

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Carool Kersten is Research Professor in Islamic studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium and Emeritus Reader at King’s College London. He is also a senior research associate of the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper in Slovenia. He is the author of Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World: Trends Themes, and Issues (Routledge 2019), A History of Islam in Indonesia (EUP, 2017), Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values (2015) and Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam (2011).

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Islam and Contemporary European Literature is timely and needed. I think that this is an excellent book. There is no other monograph which traces the interaction of Muslim and non-Muslim literary voices, in several languages over particular forms of imagination, through a focus on individual praxis of religion and the civilisational aspects of Islam. It is extraordinary to see how Dr. Kersten has constructed a macro-analytical project which denies easy generalisations and looks with nuance at specific texts and affective entanglements.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsA Note on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction: Studying Islam through Literature1. West-Eastern Affinities2. Double Genealogies3. Andalusian-Islamic Footprints4. Europe’s Ottoman Past5. New HumanismsFinal Thoughts: Everything is ConnectedNotesBibliographyIndex

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