Traces of Orientalist Islamic Fiction in The View of Postmodernist Thinking Towards Islam: Neitzsche, Foucault and Derrida Examples

In this research study, it was aimed to reveal the traces of the Orientalist Islamic fiction in the thoughts of Nietzsche, Foucault and Derrida, which are considered important representatives of the postmodernist thinking that emerged as a reaction to the positivist epistemology with the idea of Enlightenment. In the course of the study, the opinions of postmodern thinkers about Islam in their works have been examined and analyzed by means of deconstruction method. Despite the fact that postmodernist thinkers have developed a critical perspective on the orientalist positivist epistemology and European-centered understanding of this process, it has been seen that their conception of Islam is largely based on the image of negative Islam, which is framed by orientalists. As a consequence of the work, the postmodernist thinkers have come to the conclusion that Islam has been negatively framed in European society, and that they have developed a critical view of why so-called negative Islamic fiction has been alienated in European society