This study examines the revival of Sufism in the Arabic and Turkish novel during the second half of the 20th century. A picture is drawn where Sufism forms a main source of literary inspiration and becomes a mode to establish continuity with the past. Sufism is in this context not solely a passively transmitted cultural artifact; it quite the contrary becomes a major instrument to construct identity and meaning to a post-industrial society. In this respect, the act of writing becomes prayer of a sort; storytelling enables the Self to rest from the dreary political realities of authoritarian modernist ideologies. Thus, writing, in contrast to reason-driven, materialist, modernity becomes meaningful and enables the Self to connect with something beyond immanent reality; in one word, writing becomes "re-enchantment".
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<p>Als ein innovatives, langfristig angelegtes Forum für Veröffentlichungen zur Geschichte des Alten Reichs möchte die Reihe "bibliothek altes Reich - baR" zur inhaltlichen und methodischen Neuausrichtung der Erforschung des Alten Reichs anregen, die Forschungsdiskussion bündeln und Fachwissen popularisieren. Dabei versteht sie sich als grundsätzlich institutionsunabhängiges Unternehmen.</p>
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