Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “cristen, ketzer, heiden, jüden”: Questions of Identity in the Middle Ages
- 2 Wolfram von Eschenbach, Islam, and the Crusades
- 3 Perverted Spaces: Boundary Negotiations in Early-Modern Turcica
- 4 Enlightenment Encounters the Islamic and Arabic Worlds: The German “Missing Link” in Said's Orientalist Narrative (Meiners and Herder)
- 5 Goethe, Islam, and the Orient: The Impetus for and Mode of Cultural Encounter in the West-östlicher Divan
- 6 Moving beyond the Binary? Christian-Islamic Encounters and Gender in the Thought and Literature of German Romanticism
- 7 Forms of Encounter with Islam around 1800: The Cases of Johann Hermann von Riedesel and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
- 8 Displacing Orientalism: Ottoman Jihad, German Imperialism, and the Armenian Genocide
- 9 German-Islamic Literary Interperceptions in Works by Emily Ruete and Emine Sevgi Özdamar
- 10 Dialogues with Islam in the Writings of (Turkish-)German Intellectuals: A Historical Turn?
- 11 Michaela Mihriban Özelsel's Pilgrimage to Mecca: A Journey to Her Inner Self
- 12 Intimacies both Sacred and Profane: Islam in the Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Zafer Şnocak, and Feridun Zaimoğlu
- 13 Encountering Islam at Its Roots: Ilija Trojanow's Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam
- 14 The Lure of the Loser: On Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Schreckens Männer and Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 “cristen, ketzer, heiden, jüden”: Questions of Identity in the Middle Ages
- 2 Wolfram von Eschenbach, Islam, and the Crusades
- 3 Perverted Spaces: Boundary Negotiations in Early-Modern Turcica
- 4 Enlightenment Encounters the Islamic and Arabic Worlds: The German “Missing Link” in Said's Orientalist Narrative (Meiners and Herder)
- 5 Goethe, Islam, and the Orient: The Impetus for and Mode of Cultural Encounter in the West-östlicher Divan
- 6 Moving beyond the Binary? Christian-Islamic Encounters and Gender in the Thought and Literature of German Romanticism
- 7 Forms of Encounter with Islam around 1800: The Cases of Johann Hermann von Riedesel and Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
- 8 Displacing Orientalism: Ottoman Jihad, German Imperialism, and the Armenian Genocide
- 9 German-Islamic Literary Interperceptions in Works by Emily Ruete and Emine Sevgi Özdamar
- 10 Dialogues with Islam in the Writings of (Turkish-)German Intellectuals: A Historical Turn?
- 11 Michaela Mihriban Özelsel's Pilgrimage to Mecca: A Journey to Her Inner Self
- 12 Intimacies both Sacred and Profane: Islam in the Work of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Zafer Şnocak, and Feridun Zaimoğlu
- 13 Encountering Islam at Its Roots: Ilija Trojanow's Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam
- 14 The Lure of the Loser: On Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Schreckens Männer and Ian Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Encounters with Islam in German Literature and Culture , pp. 263 - 269Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009