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In time
LiteratureIslam and the modern stateDress
Overview
The novel by Orhan Pamuk (2004): the poet Ka returns from exile to the border city of Kars amid a coup, a theatre play and an investigation into the suicides of veiled women, while snow covers everything. 1
Legacy
Among Pamuk's most political novels; it asks about secularism and Islam in modern Turkey, two years before the Nobel Prize. 1
Connections
- Authored by
- Orhan Pamuk
People and things also explored
Istanbul· Muhammad Iqbal· Orhan Pamuk· al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Albisa (clothing: rulings, colours and manners)· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· The turban (amama): its forms, wiping over it, and its rules in prayer and ihram· Arab naming of children after plants
Sources
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islam.museum contributors. “Snow”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/thalj-pamuk/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.