I’m tremendously excited to announce the publication of Ismail Gaspirali’s The Muslims of Darürrahat, translated by Çiğdem Pala Mull and edited by Sharon Carson. In Ismail Gaspirali’s 1890s story The Muslims of Darürrahat, (the Peaceful Country) the not entirely intrepid narrator Mullah Abbas Efendi arrives in the imaginary land of Darürrahat. We tried to build a book around the translation which would spark the interest of general readers in English who might not be familiar with Gaspirali and his times and writing, and also offer something to specialists interested in utopian literature, comparative cultural studies, Central Asian literary history, and literary journalism.”