Sufism and English Literature: Chaucer to the Present Age - Echoes and Images
- Author / Editor
- Hasan, Masoodul.
Sufism and English Literature: Chaucer to the Present Age - Echoes and Images
- Published
- New Delhi: Adam , 2007.
- Physical Description
- xi, 331 pp.
- Description
- Surveys British literary responses to "some aspects of the Muslim spiritual system," identifying instances in which British literature was influenced by Sufi mysticism or reflects awareness of it. Includes summary (pp. 37-39) of parallels between Middle Eastern narratives and Chaucer's CT and PF; also mentions his "general awareness of Muslim people and their faith" in MLT and SqT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.