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Exciting, intelligent, and learned, Carool Kersten's timely study guides his readers through a fascinating constellation of writers, texts, and ideas drawn from all over Europe to explore the relationship between Islam and Contemporary Literature. He demonstrates the poverty of fixed ideas about closed identities -especially in relation to religion-- along with the beauty and urgency of reckoning with porous borders, liminalities, and heterotopias through literature. As barriers are erected all over the world and the drumbeats of war grow louder, we should all, despite Kersten's modest closing sentence, read 'a book like this.'--Ziad Elmarsafy, University of St Andrews Islam and Contemporary European Literature is timely and needed. I think that this is an excellent book. There is no other monograph which traces the interaction of Muslim and non-Muslim literary voices, in several languages over particular forms of imagination, through a focus on individual praxis of religion and the civilisational aspects of Islam. It is extraordinary to see how Dr. Kersten has constructed a macro-analytical project which denies easy generalisations and looks with nuance at specific texts and affective entanglements.--Dilyana Mincheva, McMaster University

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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 Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World: Trends Themes, and Issues (Routledge 2019), A History of Islam in Indonesia (EUP, 2017), Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values (2015) and Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam (2011).

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