Islamic with Turkish Connections: Atiya’s and Zeyneb’s Counter-narratives to the West

• Main Author: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021
• Subjects: HQ1101 Women. Feminism; PE English; PI Oriental languages and literatures; PK Indo-Iranian; PN0080 Criticism; PN0441 Literary History
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/89532/1/89532_Islamic%20with%20Turkish%20Connections.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/89532/2/89532_Islamic%20with%20Turkish%20Connections_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/89532/; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13602004.2021.1903160; https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2021.1903160

South Asian Atiya Fyzee and her Turkish contemporary Zeyneb Hanoum were epistolary travel writers. Despite their variant geographical identities, both had Turkish connections and share similarities in their work. Both made trips to Europe in the early twentieth century when international travel was...