Far Land, by Fatma Karabıyık Barbarosoglu, one of the most significant writers of contemporary literature, is a novel based upon the life of Fatma Aliye, who was the first-ever female Muslim author. Far Land has a dual narrative: on the one hand we read the story of Fatma Aliye, an Ottoman intellectual, writer, mother and wife, while on the other we focus on the story of another writer, who lives in Turkey in the 21st century and who is studying Fatma Aliye. The Muslim woman writer was born during the most painful period of the Ottoman Empire. Fatma Aliye was the beloved daughter of the historian Ahmet Cevdet, who was one of the leading statesmen of the time. She was a writer so greatly appreciated in her time that baby girls were named after her, in the hope that they would be intelligent like her.