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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Weimar, 2000: Memorializing Goethe’s Ḥāfiẓ
1 Weimar, 1800: Dramatizing Goethe’s “Mahomet”
2 “Mohammed came forward on the stage”: Herder’s Islamic History
3 “In the footsteps of Mohammed”: Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis
4 “Allāh is the best Keeper”: Joseph Hammer’s Ḥāfiẓ
5 “In no other language”: Goethe’s Arabic Apprenticeship
6 “Is the Qur’an from eternity?”: Goethe’s Divan and the “Book of Books”
7 “The Flight and Return of Mohammed”: S. T. Coleridge and Robert Southey
8 “The all-beholding Prophet’s aweful voice”: Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer
9 “The Prophet, who could summon the future to his presence”: Landor’s Eastern Renditions
10 “I blush as a good Mussulman”: Byron’s Turkish Tales and Travels
11 “Beautiful beyond all the bells in Christendom”: Byron’s Aesthetic Adhān
12 “The orient moon of Islam rode in triumph”: Percy Bysshe Shelley as “Islamite”
13 “The female followers of Mahomet”: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
14 “A strong mixture of the Saracenic with the Gothic”: Irving’s Islamic Biographies
15 “Twenty thousand copies of the Koran”: Poe’s Muslim Medium
16 “Unveiled Allah pours the flood of truth”: Emerson’s Islamic Civics
Epilogue: Romantic Requiem: The Islamic Interment of Yūsuf bin Ḥāmir
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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