Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Translator’s Preface vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction 1
7. 1: Pre-Islamic Bedouin Poetry 17
8. 2: Islam 70
9. 3: Living Islam 111
10. 4: Islam in the West-Eastern Divan 124
11. 5: Dissent from Islam in the West-Eastern Divan 174
12. 6: Poets of the Islamic Period 235
13. 7: Arabian Proverbs 299
14. Appendix of Goethe’s Poems in the Original German 311
15. Notes 353
16. Bibliography 431
17. Index of Persons 445
18. Index of Subjects 459
19. Index of Goethe’s Works 483