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- Goethe considered literature (language) and religion as the best aids to discovering other cultures. In addition to Persian literature, he also learned the Arabic language and script and studied the teachings of Zoroaster as well as those of Islam.
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Oct 1, 2021 · Oct 1, 2021 | Islam | 0 comments. Der Tübinger Theologieprofessor Karl-Josef Kuschel hat in seinem neuen Buch „Goethe und der Koran. Texte von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Kalligrafien von Shahid Alam“ alle Texte des deutschen Dichterfürsten Goethes (1749-1832) zum Islam zusammengefasst und kommentiert. Dabei wird deutlich, wie aktuell die ...
More than most learned figures, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, perhaps the most prominent representative of German culture and literature, was actually ahead of us in this task. This explains the unanimous view in scholarship that Goethe’s engagement with the Islamic world remains groundbreaking to this day.
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Contrary to many Enlightenment writers that belittled Islam and Prophet Muhammad in their literary works, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was inspired by the Orient and praised its religion. ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary , political , and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.
Goethe’s interest in Islam and Oriental studies culminated in the composition of the West-östlicher Divan; up to now, though, these influences have been examined as a whole, as part of the wider relationship of Goethe with Islamic culture, without separating religious from cultural components.
In the present paper, I aim at outlining the impact of Islamic mysticism on the German Romanticism, especially Islamic mystical poetry of Muḥammad Shams ad-Dīn Ḥāfiẓ (d. 1390) on the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (d. 1832).
Dec 15, 2001 · GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG von (1749-1832), and the influence upon him of the Persian poet Ḥāfeẓ (q.v.; ca. 1320-90 C.E.). Goethe, the most renowned poet of German literature, was already from his youth deeply interested in the East and in Islam.
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