Book Review “To God belongs the East and the West,” says one of the prominent characters who commits two murders in the novel. “But East is east and West is west,” pat comes the response from Black, the one who identifies the murderer. Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s novel, My Name is Red , revolves round the European (West) and the Turkish (East) perspectives of art. The artist is free to look at the object according to his individual inner truth and understanding in the Western view. Such an artist has an individual style. But the genuine Islamic view has to see an object as Allah would see it. Any individual nuance given by the artist is blasphemy. The novel is set in 1591, a year before the 1000 th anniversary (by the Islamic calendar) of Prophet Mohammed’s flight from Mecca to Medina. The Sultan wants to celebrate the anniversary by publishing a special book which will be illustrated by the best artists (miniaturists) of the country. Enishte Effendi is giv
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