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" Sufism and American literary masters / "
edited by Mehdi Aminrazavi ; foreword by Jacob Needleman.
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1048375
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bc222
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English
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Sufism and American literary masters /\ edited by Mehdi Aminrazavi ; foreword by Jacob Needleman.
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, [2014]
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, ©2014
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SUNY series in Islam
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1 online resource.
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9781438453545
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: 143845354X
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1438453531
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9781438453538
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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American poetry-- Islamic influences.
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Sufi poetry, American-- History and criticism.
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Sufism in literature.
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Muslims in literature.
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Islam in literature.
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Mysticism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Islam in literature.
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Muslims in literature.
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Mysticism in literature.
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Sufi poetry, American.
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Sufism in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/382974
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PS166
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Razavi, Mehdi Amin,1957-
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Needleman, Jacob
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