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Goethe and the Poets of Arabia (Hardcover)
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Goethe and the Poets of Arabia (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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A comprehensive account of Goethe's relationship to Arabian
culture, mediated by his interest in certain poets and texts and by
his highly nuanced attitude toward Islam. Abundant evidence bears
witness to Johann Wolfgang Goethe's lifelong predilection for the
literature, religion, and culture of ancient Arabia. Scholars have
hardly yet touched upon Goethe's relationship to Arabic literature.
His remarkable West-oestlicher Divan suggested that his interest in
the "Orient" was limited to the Persian poet Hafez, his chief model
for the collection, and to the culture of Persia. Yet significant
aspects of this work and others stem from pre-Islamic and Islamic
traditions of Arabian literature. This study examines
comprehensively Goethe's relationship to Arabian culture, mediated
primarily by his interest in certain poets and texts and by his
highly nuanced attitude toward Muhammad, the Qur'an, and Islam.
Katharina Mommsen has explored exhaustively Goethe's opinions about
Arab poets and their sources, the numerous traces of Arabic poetry
that entered his works, and thegrounds for his ambivalent affinity
for Islam and its Prophet. Extensive textual evidence reveals how
throughout his life Goethe's temperament determined his interest in
particular Arabian poets and was in turn modulated by them.The
study also opens new perspectives on Goethe's biography, especially
in the early nineteenth century when he was writing the Divan.
Katharina Mommsen's studies of Goethe, including Goethe und die
Moallakat, Goethe und 1001 Nacht, and numerous articles on Goethe
and Islam, are recognized internationally. She is Professor Emerita
of German at Stanford University. Michael M. Metzger is Professor
Emeritus of German at the University at Buffalo.
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