Initiating a Dialogue Through 'the Global Community on your Bookshelf'

Nina Liewald analyses literary representations of so-called ''Islamic fundamentalism'' by contemporary authors whose cultural background and approach to the subject matter differs substantially: Hanif Kureishi, Sebastian Faulks, Mohsin Hamid and Yasmina Khadra.The author focuses on the narrative depiction of this complex phenomenon and its economic, religious and sociopolitical framework in select...