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- Title
The Islamic Epistemology in a Western Genre: Ahmet Mithat Efendi's Esrar-ı Cinayat, the First Detective Novel of Turkish Literature.
- Authors
Tufekcioglu, Zeynep
- Abstract
The author examines the first Turkish detective novel, Esrar-ı Cinayat (1884), by Ahmet Mithat Efendi and argues that the adaptation of crime fiction in the Ottoman context brought new developments to the genre. Esrar-ı Cinayat's innovative features reflect the Islamic epistemology that dominated Ottoman culture during the Tanzimat period.
- Subjects
THEORY of knowledge (Islam); ESRAR-i Cinayat (Book); AHMET Mithat, 1844-1912; MYSTERY fiction; TURKISH literature
- Publication
Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company), 2011, Vol 29, Issue 2, p7
- ISSN
0742-4248
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3172/CLU.29.2.7