Jeffrey Einboden is Associate Professor in the English Department at Northern Illinois University. Most recently, he has authored Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature in Middle Eastern Languages, a study of celebrated American authors in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew translation. Einboden’s research has appeared in journals such as Middle Eastern Literatures, Translation and Literature, and the Journal of Qur’anic Studies; his article “The Genesis of Weltliteratur” was named in 2006 one of the “100 seminal articles” published by Oxford University Press Journals during the past century.

“Jeffrey’s Einboden’s book is important and timely. Its detailed and scholarly tracing of the theme of Islam through German and English Romanticism is indicative not only of the ‘Orientalism’ within the traditions of Western literature in the last two centuries, but of the seriousness with which Islam, it language and literature, was taken by figures as important and as diverse as Goethe and Byron. This should be compulsory reading not only for students of literature, but for everyone concerned with the relationship between Western culture and the Muslim world.”

• Introduction: Weimar, 2000: Memorializing Goethe’s Ḥāfiẓ1 Weimar, 1800: Dramatizing Goethe’s “Mahomet”2 “Mohammed came forward on the stage”: Herder’s Islamic History3 “In the footsteps of Mohammed”: Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis4 “Allāh is the best Keeper”: Joseph Hammer’s Ḥāfiẓ5 “In no other language”: Goethe’s Arabic Apprenticeship6 “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 Southey8 “The all-beholding Prophet’s aweful voice”: Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer9 “The Prophet, who could summon the future to his presence”: Landor’s Eastern Renditions10 “I blush as a good Mussulman”: Byron’s Turkish Tales and Travels11 “Beautiful beyond all the bells in Christendom”: Byron’s Aesthetic Adhān12 “The orient moon of Islam rode in triumph”: Percy Bysshe Shelley as “Islamite”13 “The female followers of Mahomet”: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein14 “A strong mixture of the Saracenic with the Gothic”: Irving’s Islamic Biographies15 “Twenty thousand copies of the Koran”: Poe’s Muslim Medium16 “Unveiled Allah pours the flood of truth”: Emerson’s Islamic CivicsEpilogue: Romantic Requiem: The Islamic Interment of Yūsuf bin Ḥāmir NotesBibliographyIndex

Jeffrey Einboden is Associate Professor in the English Department at Northern Illinois University. Most recently, he has authored Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature in Middle Eastern Languages, a study of celebrated American authors in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew translation. Einboden’s research has appeared in journals such as Middle Eastern Literatures, Translation and Literature, and the Journal of Qur’anic Studies; his article “The Genesis of Weltliteratur” was named in 2006 one of the “100 seminal articles” published by Oxford University Press Journals during the past century.

“Jeffrey’s Einboden’s book is important and timely. Its detailed and scholarly tracing of the theme of Islam through German and English Romanticism is indicative not only of the ‘Orientalism’ within the traditions of Western literature in the last two centuries, but of the seriousness with which Islam, it language and literature, was taken by figures as important and as diverse as Goethe and Byron. This should be compulsory reading not only for students of literature, but for everyone concerned with the relationship between Western culture and the Muslim world.”

• Introduction: Weimar, 2000: Memorializing Goethe’s Ḥāfiẓ1 Weimar, 1800: Dramatizing Goethe’s “Mahomet”2 “Mohammed came forward on the stage”: Herder’s Islamic History3 “In the footsteps of Mohammed”: Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis4 “Allāh is the best Keeper”: Joseph Hammer’s Ḥāfiẓ5 “In no other language”: Goethe’s Arabic Apprenticeship6 “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 Southey8 “The all-beholding Prophet’s aweful voice”: Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer9 “The Prophet, who could summon the future to his presence”: Landor’s Eastern Renditions10 “I blush as a good Mussulman”: Byron’s Turkish Tales and Travels11 “Beautiful beyond all the bells in Christendom”: Byron’s Aesthetic Adhān12 “The orient moon of Islam rode in triumph”: Percy Bysshe Shelley as “Islamite”13 “The female followers of Mahomet”: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein14 “A strong mixture of the Saracenic with the Gothic”: Irving’s Islamic Biographies15 “Twenty thousand copies of the Koran”: Poe’s Muslim Medium16 “Unveiled Allah pours the flood of truth”: Emerson’s Islamic CivicsEpilogue: Romantic Requiem: The Islamic Interment of Yūsuf bin Ḥāmir NotesBibliographyIndex

Jeffrey Einboden is Associate Professor in the English Department at Northern Illinois University. Most recently, he has authored Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature in Middle Eastern Languages, a study of celebrated American authors in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew translation. Einboden’s research has appeared in journals such as Middle Eastern Literatures, Translation and Literature, and the Journal of Qur’anic Studies; his article “The Genesis of Weltliteratur” was named in 2006 one of the “100 seminal articles” published by Oxford University Press Journals during the past century.

“Jeffrey’s Einboden’s book is important and timely. Its detailed and scholarly tracing of the theme of Islam through German and English Romanticism is indicative not only of the ‘Orientalism’ within the traditions of Western literature in the last two centuries, but of the seriousness with which Islam, it language and literature, was taken by figures as important and as diverse as Goethe and Byron. This should be compulsory reading not only for students of literature, but for everyone concerned with the relationship between Western culture and the Muslim world.”

• Introduction: Weimar, 2000: Memorializing Goethe’s Ḥāfiẓ1 Weimar, 1800: Dramatizing Goethe’s “Mahomet”2 “Mohammed came forward on the stage”: Herder’s Islamic History3 “In the footsteps of Mohammed”: Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis4 “Allāh is the best Keeper”: Joseph Hammer’s Ḥāfiẓ5 “In no other language”: Goethe’s Arabic Apprenticeship6 “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 Southey8 “The all-beholding Prophet’s aweful voice”: Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer9 “The Prophet, who could summon the future to his presence”: Landor’s Eastern Renditions10 “I blush as a good Mussulman”: Byron’s Turkish Tales and Travels11 “Beautiful beyond all the bells in Christendom”: Byron’s Aesthetic Adhān12 “The orient moon of Islam rode in triumph”: Percy Bysshe Shelley as “Islamite”13 “The female followers of Mahomet”: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein14 “A strong mixture of the Saracenic with the Gothic”: Irving’s Islamic Biographies15 “Twenty thousand copies of the Koran”: Poe’s Muslim Medium16 “Unveiled Allah pours the flood of truth”: Emerson’s Islamic CivicsEpilogue: Romantic Requiem: The Islamic Interment of Yūsuf bin Ḥāmir NotesBibliographyIndex