German Studies

Comparative Literature Studies

• Turkey and the Muslim Middle/Near East

  • Ghazal poetry
  • Anatolian Sufism
  • Rumi's Sufi teachings and mystical poetry
  • Islamic mysticism (i.e. Sufism) and mystical symbolism
  • Muslim feminisms/Gender awareness in the Muslim Middle/Near East
  • Language, literature, culture and civilization of Turkey
  • Contemporary Turkish literature
  • Turkish feminisms
  • Islam in Turkey
  • The Islamist movement and Turkish women
  • Turkish literature on the work migration to Germany
• The United States of America

  • Minority literatures of North America
  • Multiculturalism in the U.S.A.: Theory and practice
  • Orientalism and Occidentalism and the U.S.A.
  • Islam in the U.S.A.

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