Sufism and American literary masters /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Razavi, Mehdi Amin, 1957- (Editor), Needleman, Jacob (author of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2014]
Series:	SUNY series in Islam.
Subjects:	American poetry > Islamic influences. Sufi poetry, American > History and criticism. Sufism in literature. Muslims in literature. Islam in literature. Mysticism in literature.

Table of 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
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Contributors' Biographies
Bibliography
Glossary
Index.