{"product_id":"islam-and-contemporary-european-literature-9781474492676","title":"Islam and Contemporary European Literature","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKersten, Carool:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 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 \u003ci\u003eContemporary Thought in the Muslim World: Trends Themes, and Issues\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge 2019), \u003ci\u003eA History of Islam in Indonesia\u003c\/i\u003e (EUP, 2017), I\u003ci\u003eslam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) and Cosm\u003ci\u003eopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam \u003c\/i\u003e(2011).","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51811695788306,"sku":"9781474492676","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1968453d-0e75-475c-8e9c-09eef38f77b1.jpg?v=1766487944","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/islam-and-contemporary-european-literature-9781474492676","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}