Sufism and American literary maste / edited by Mehdi Aminrazavi ; foreword by Jacob Needleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Needleman, Jacob, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Aminrazavi, Mehdi, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Islam.

SUNY Series in Islam

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Islamic influences.

American poetry.

Sufi poetry, American--History and criticism.

Sufi poetry, American.

Sufism in literature.

Muslims in literature.

Islam in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Notes ""; ""The English Romantic Background ""; ""1. English Romantics and Persian Sufi Poets: A Wellspring of Inspiration for American Transcendentalists ""; ""Platonism in Romantic and Sufi Poetry ""; ""Comparative Persian�English Poetics: Archetypal and Anagogic Criticism ""; ""Anagogic Correspondences Between Sufi and Romantic Poetry ""; ""Carpe Diem ""; ""Nunc Aeternum ""; ""Mundus Imaginalis ""; ""Annihilation, Mystical Death, Fana� ""; ""The Unity of Religions ""

""Conclusion: Platonic Poetics and the Science of Anagogic Criticism """"Notes ""; ""The Master: Emerson and Sufism ""; ""2. The Chronological Development of Emerson�s Interest in Persian Mysticism ""; ""Notes ""; ""3. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Muslim Orient ""; ""Notes ""; ""4. Emerson and Aspects of Sa�di�s Reception in Nineteenth-Century America ""; ""Notes ""; ""5. Emerson on Hafiz and Sa�di: The Narrative of Love and Wine ""; ""Emerson�s Encounter with Persian Literature ""; ""Emerson�s Writings on Persian Mystical Literature ""; ""Emerson�s Translations from Hafiz ""

""Echoes of Hafiz�s Poems in Emerson�s Verse """"Notes ""; ""The Disciple: Walt Whitman ""; ""6. Whitman and Hafiz: Expressions of Universal Love and Tolerance ""; ""Notes ""; ""7. Walt Whitman and Sufism: Towards “A Persian Lesson� ""; ""A Song of Myself ""; ""Whitman and Rumi ""; ""Notes ""; ""The Initiates: Other American Authors ""; ""8. Literary “Masters� in the Literature of Thomas Lake Harris, Lawrence Oliphant, and Paschal Beverly Randolph ""; ""Thomas Lake Harris ""; ""Laurence Oliphant ""; ""Paschal Beverly Randolph ""; ""Conclusions ""; ""Notes ""

""9. American Transcendentalists� Interpretations of Sufism: Thoreau, Whitman, Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn """"Longfellow, Lowell, Melville, and Lafcadio Hearn ""; ""Notes ""; ""10. The Persians of Concord ""; ""Notes ""; ""11. Omarian Poets of America ""; ""The Omar Khayyam Club of America ""; ""The Omarian Poets of New England ""; ""The Ruba�iyyat of Mark Twain ""; ""The Eliots ""; ""Other American Literary Movements and Figures ""; ""Notes ""; ""12. “Bond Slave to FitzGerald�s Omar�: Mark Twain and The Rubáiyát ""; ""Notes ""

""13. Mark Twain�s Ruba�iyyat: AGE�A Rubáiyát """"Note ""; ""Glossary ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""List of Contributors ""; ""Index ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 20, 2014).

ISBN:

9781438453545

143845354X

OCLC:

893676533