Islamic literature in contemporary Turkey from epic to novel /

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Author / Creator: Çayır, Kenan.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Online Access:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
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Summary: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.
ISBN:9780230605695 (online)
Author Notes:KENAN CAYIR is Assistant Professor of sociology at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.