Islam and Contemporary European Literature

by Carool Kersten

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474492673
• ISBN13: 9781474492676
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 336 Pages