Book Launch: Mystical Islam and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary German Literature

Fri, 27.04.2018
6:00 PM Online at the Goethe-Institut Irland

Joseph Twist, Mystical Islam and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary German Literature: Openness to Alterity

At a time when the place of Muslims in German society is being disputed, this book examines the manner in which four contemporary German writers from Muslim backgrounds - Zafer Ṣenocak, SAID, Feridun Zaimoḡlu, and Navid Kermani - point beyond identity politics and posit new ways to conceive of religion and community.

Joseph Twist holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and before starting his fixed-term lectureship at UCD he has previously taught in the German Departments of the National University of Ireland, Galway, and the University of Limerick.