Mehdi Aminrazavi

Sufism and American Literary Masters Mehdi Aminrazavi

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Mehdi Aminrazavi is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Mary Washington. He is the author of "The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry, and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam" and the coeditor (with David Ambuel) of "Philosophy, Religion, and the Question of Intolerance," also published by SUNY Press. 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. Obeidat" 4. Emerson and Aspects of Sa'di's Reception in Nineteenth-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 Rubaiyat Alan Gribben" 13. "Mark Twain's Ruba'iyyat: AGE-A Rubaiyat" Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index Contributor Bio:  Needleman, Jacob Jacob Needleman is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and the author of many books, including "The Essential Marcus Aurelius", "Why Can't We Be Good?", "The American Soul", "The Wisdom of Love", "Time and the Soul", "The Heart of Philosophy", "Lost Christianity", and "Money and the Meaning of Life."