Death and the Dervish (Writings from an Unbound Europe)

An acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over the Balkans. Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish is an enduring classic.