Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
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  • Contributors' Biographies
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index.