03361nam a2200565Ii 4500 ocn893676533 OCoLC 20200709060245.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 141024s2014 nyu ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T 9781438453545 electronic bk. 143845354X electronic bk. 1438453531 9781438453538 (OCoLC)893676533 870063 (N$T) PS166 LIT 004020 bisacsh 810.9/382974 23 N$TA Sufism and American literary masters / edited by Mehdi Aminrazavi ; foreword by Jacob Needleman. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier SUNY series in Islam Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Print version record. American poetry Islamic influences. Sufi poetry, American History and criticism. Sufism in literature. Muslims in literature. Islam in literature. Mysticism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General bisacsh Electronic books. Razavi, Mehdi Amin, 1957- editor. Needleman, Jacob, writer of foreword. Print version: Sufism and American literary masters 1438453531 (DLC) 2014028931 (OCoLC)879583732 SUNY series in Islam. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=870063 EBSCOhost EBSC 870063 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 55630 55630