ISBN:
1438453531
,
9781438453538
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 297 S
Series Statement:
SUNY series in Islam
DDC:
810.9/382974
Keywords:
American poetry Islamic influences
;
Sufi poetry, American History and criticism
;
Sufism in literature
;
Muslims in literature
;
Islam in literature
;
Mysticism in literature
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Iran
;
Literatur
;
Sufismus
;
Islam
;
Mystizismus
;
USA
;
Iran
;
Sufismus
;
Islam
;
Mystizismus
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Foreword
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The English Romantic Background: 1. English Romantics and Persian Sufi Poets: A Wellspring of Inspiration for American Transcendentalists
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The Master: Emerson and Sufism: 2. The Chronological Development of Emerson's Interest in Persian Mysticism
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3. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Muslim Orient
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4. Emerson and Aspects of Sa'di's Reception in 19thNineteenth Century America
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5. Emerson on Hafiz and Sa'di: The Narrative of Love and Wine
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The Disciple: Walt Whitman: 6. Whitman and Hafiz: Expressions of Universal Love and Tolerance
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7. Walt Whitman and Sufism: Towards a Persian Lesson
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The Initiates: Other American Authors: 8. Literary 'Masters' in the Literature of Thomas Lake Harris, Lawrence Oliphant, and Paschal Beverly Randolph
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9. American Transcendentalists' Interpretations of Sufism: Thoreau, Whitman, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn
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10. The Persians of Concord
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11. Omarian Poets of America
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12. 'Bond Slave to FitzGerald's Omar': Mark Twain and the Ruba'iyat
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13. Mark Twain's Ruba'iyat: AGE ; A ; Contributors' Biographies ; Bibliography ; Glossary ; Index.
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