Considered as a historiographic metafictional work, The Forty Rules of Love (2010) by Elif
Shafak stands as a window throughout which history can be glanced at, from an imaginary …

In William Patrick Patterson's Struggle of the Magicians, a detailed study of the relationship
between the prominent figures of Western esotericism, GI Gurdjieff and PD Ouspensky, he …

In 2017, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak publicly acknowledged her bisexuality. While
some reactions were positive, many were traditionalist, homophobic and misogynistic. This …

Given the increasing public prominence accorded to discourses relating to complex global
trends such as migration, cosmopolitanism and transnationalism, it is unsurprising that …

This paper aims to analyse Love and its dearth in today's world that forms the crux of Elif
Shafak's novel The Forty Rules of Love. The novel connects human predicament of the …

Elif Shafak, a Turkish-British novelist has made a spellbinding impression in the field of her
native literature giving it a rung higher up in the ladder of world literature. In line with the …

ABSTRACT In her novel The Saint of Incipient Insanities (2004), Elif Shafak explores the
theme of alienation by portraying a group of individuals who live in the US and struggle to …

Elif Shafak's novella, The Forty Rules of Love, published in March 2009, explores the identity
of one's existence through a spiritual transformation. Sufi mysticism, which Ella has …

This thesis discusses the various socio-cultural developments that gave rise to the wide
recognition of Elif Shafak in the Arab field of cultural production after her novel The Forty …

This article focuses on the reception of Elif Shafak's fiction as it circulates within the global
literary marketplace, examining the responses of secular and religious readerships in …