Islam and New Directions in World Literature

Brings forth the Islamicate as an aesthetic and critical force in World Literature Disrupts the one-way traffic in the field of World Literature studies by regarding Islam as both an alternative and a critical force behind creative processes Understands Islam as a driving creative force and situates its contribution in the development, past and present, of world imaginaries Covers a variety of global locations to discuss the Islamicate as developed in Western European, Turkic, Indo-Persian, Midd