The Impact of sufism on the contemporary american society in Elif Shafak's novel The forty rules of love 2010
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2016
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university of Oum El Bouaghi
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In the last few decades, there is an increasingly interest in reading Rumi's Sufis poems and in learning about Sufism in the american society. Elif Shafak's The forty rules of Love (2010) is about Ella, a typical white american character at the age of forty she converts to Sufism after she has learned about this mystical religion from Aziz a Scottish who turned a Sufist writer. So, this work attempts to trace the impact of Sufism on the american society through the analysis of The forty rules of love. Also, a part of this book is historical where the writer fluctuates between the 13th and 21st centuries events. This allows us to investigate the divergences and convergences between those two centuries trying to bridge the gap between the West and the East. It can be said that despite the fact that Elif is a Turkish writer, she aims to find a meeting point between the two radically different poles of the dichotomy East/West.
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Novel : Elif Shafak : The forty rules of love