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Highlights the spirituality and cosmopolitanism of four contemporary German Muslim writers, showing that they undermine the'clash-of-civilizations'narrative and open up space for new ways of coexisting.At a time when the place of Muslims in German society is being disputed, this book explores how four contemporary German writers of Muslim backgrounds - Zafer Senocak, SAID, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Navid Kermani - point beyond identity politics and suggest new ways of thinking about religion and community. Twist highlights both the spirituality and the cosmopolitanism of these authors, bringing their thought into dialogue with the work of Jean-Luc Nancy.Nancy is critical of communities based on a single guiding principle (be it God or Reason) and thus involving a universalizing core that leads to conflicts between identity groups. He proposes alternative notions of both religious faith (a postmonotheistic version with elements of mysticism) and community (spontaneous communities requiring no shared identity). Twist relates these arguments to post-9/11 debates over cosmopolitanism and religion, illuminating how the writers under study draw upon mystical Islam's deconstructive potential,

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Author

Joseph Twist

Publisher

Boydell and Brewer Limited

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787441699

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History