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Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey
Kenan Cayir
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Description for Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey
Hardback. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; DSBH; DSK; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403977564
SKU
V9781403977564
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About Kenan Cayir
KENAN CAYIR is Assistant Professor of sociology at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
Reviews for Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey
"Çayir gives us an original and fresh insight to understand the inner workings of Islamic narrative and its transformation from an ideological one in the 1980s to a self-reflexive one in the 1990s." - Nilüfer Göle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris "Literature in Islam and its manifold faces is vast. However, Çayir skillfully discloses ... Read more