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" Islam and romanticism : "
Jeffrey Einboden.
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BL
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1048346
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bc211
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English
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Einboden, Jeffrey
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Islam and romanticism : : Muslim currents from Goethe to Emerson /\ Jeffrey Einboden.
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London, England :: Oneworld Publications,, 2014.
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Muslim and Islamic contributions to culture and civilization
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viii, 268 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9781780745664
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: 1780745664
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9781780745671
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"A Oneworld book"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Weimar, 2000: Memorializing Goethe's Ḥāfiẓ -- Weimar, 1800: Dramatizing Goethe's "Mahomet" -- "Mohammed came forward on the stage": Herder's Islamic history -- "In the footsteps of Mohammed": Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis -- "Allāh is the best Keeper": Joseph Hammer's Ḥāfiẓ -- "In no other language": Goethe's Arabic apprenticeship -- "Is the Qur'an from eternity?": Goethe's Divan and the "Book of Books" -- "The flight and return of Mohammed": S. T. Coleridge and Robert Southey -- "The all-beholding Prophet's aweful voice": Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer -- "The Prophet, who could summon the future to his presence": Landor's eastern renditions -- "I blush as a good Mussulman": Byron's Turkish Tales and travels -- "Beautiful beyond all the bells in Christendom": Byron's aesthetic Adhān -- "The orient moon of Islam rode in triumph": Percy Bysshe Shelley as "Islamite" -- "The female followers of Mahomet": Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- "A strong mixture of the Saracenic with the Gothic": Irving's Islamic biographies -- "Twenty thousand copies of the Koran": Poe's Muslim medium -- "Unveiled Allah pours the flood of truth": Emerson's Islamic civics -- Epilogue: Romantic requiem: The Islamic interment of Yūsuf bin Ḥāmir.
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Revealing Islam's formative influence on literary Romanticism, Islam and Romanticism traces a lively lineage of interreligious exchange, surveying the impact of Muslim sources on the West's most seminal authors. Spanning continents and centuries, the book surveys Islamic receptions that bridge Romantic periods and personalities, unfolding from Europe to Britain and America, and embracing figures from Goethe to Byron and Emerson. Broad in historical scope, Islam and Romanticism is also specific in personal detail - exposing Islam's role as a creative catalyst - but also as a spiritual resource, with the Qur'an and Sufi poetry infusing Western literary publications. Highlighting cultural encounter, rather than political exploitation, the book differs from previous treatments by accenting Western receptions that transcend mere Orientalism, finding the genesis of a global literary culture first emerging in the Romantics' early appeal to Islamic traditions.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824
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Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851
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Islam and literature.
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Islam and literature.
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Islam
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Romantik
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.9338297
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PN605.I8E56 2014
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| Parallel Title
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Muslim currents from Goethe to Emerson
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