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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series in Islam
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SUNY series in Islam.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Jacob Needleman -- Introduction / Mehdi Aminrazavi -- The English Romantic Background: 1. English Romantics and Persian Sufi Poets: A Wellspring of Inspiration for American Transcendentalists / Leonard Lewisohn -- The Master: Emerson and Sufism: 2. The Chronological Development of Emerson's Interest in Persian Mysticism / Mansur Ekhtiyar -- 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Muslim Orient / Marwan M. Obediat -- 4. Emerson and Aspects of Sa'di's Reception in 19thNineteenth Century America / Parvin Loloi -- 5. Emerson on Hafiz and Sa'di: The Narrative of Love and Wine / Farhang Jahanpour -- The Disciple: Walt Whitman: 6. Whitman and Hafiz: Expressions of Universal Love and Tolerance / Mahnaz Ahmad -- 7. Walt Whitman and Sufism: Towards a Persian Lesson / Massud Farzan -- The Initiates: Other American Authors: 8. Literary 'Masters' in the Literature of Thomas Lake Harris, Lawrence Oliphant, and Paschal Beverly Randolph / Arthur Versluis -- 9. American Transcendentalists' Interpretations of Sufism: Thoreau, Whitman, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn / John D. Yohannan -- 10. The Persians of Concord / Phillip N. Edmondson -- 11. Omarian Poets of America / Mehdi Aminrazavi -- 12. 'Bond Slave to FitzGerald's Omar': Mark Twain and the Ruba'iyat / Alan Gribben -- 13. Mark Twain's Ruba'iyat: AGE -- A -- Contributors' Biographies -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Islamic influences.
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American poetry. |
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Sufi poetry, American -- History and criticism.
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Sufi poetry, American. |
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Sufism in literature.
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Sufism in literature. |
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Muslims in literature.
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Muslims in literature. |
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Islam in literature.
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Islam in literature. |
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Mysticism in literature.
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Mysticism in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Razavi, Mehdi Amin, 1957- editor.
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Needleman, Jacob, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sufism and American literary masters 1438453531 (DLC) 2014028931 (OCoLC)879583732 |
| ISBN |
9781438453545 (electronic book) |
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143845354X (electronic book) |
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1438453531 |
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9781438453538 |
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