Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Razavi, Mehdi Amin, 1957-
• Needleman, Jacob

Description

xiii, 297 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

SUNY series in Islam

Uniform Title

SUNY series in Islam.

Subject

• American poetry > Islamic influences
• Sufi poetry, American > History and criticism
• Sufism in literature
• Muslims in literature
• Islam in literature
• Mysticism in literature

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 14-8301

ISBN

• 1438453531
• 9781438453538

LCCN

2014028931

OCLC

879583732

Title

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

Publisher

Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

SUNY series in Islam

SUNY series in Islam.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Razavi, Mehdi Amin, 1957- editor.

Needleman, Jacob, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-8301