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The Islamic lineage of American literary culture : Muslim sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Einboden, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
American literature > 19th century > Islamic influences.
Table of Contents:
  • "Blessed be Allah, most fair": Ezra Stiles' Arabic revolutions
  • "I most sincerely wish an Arabic manuscript of the Koran":
  • William Bentley's Islamic archives
  • "Intermingled with texts of the Koran": Washington Irving's Moorish renovations
  • "To look at the Koran through his spectacles": The Muslim progress of Lydia Maria Child
  • "He knows the Koran by heart": The Sufi circulations of Ralph Waldo Emerson.