Religion and Revolution provides a comprehensive study of spiritual and political Islam in Ernesto Cardenal, the great Latin American poet, priest, and revolutionary. The work studies the relationship between Thomas Merton and ?ufism, Cardenal's connection to spiritual Islam, as well as the ?ufi sources cited in his Cosmic Canticle. The work equally examines the impact of political Islam on his ideology, focusing particularly on his trip to Iran during the very triumph of the Islamic Revolution. Using Cardenal's "Interlude of the Revolution in Iran" as a starting point, the work provides a vivid and detailed description of the early days of the revolution as well as the ties between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Latin American left.
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'In his Religion and Revolution: Spiritual and Political Islam in Ernesto Cardenal, John Morrow has manifested his years-of-research incorporated knowledge in Hispanic, Native American, and Arabic-Islamic studies to shed light on two poorly understood themes - both in the East and, particularly, in the West - via a specific narrative. The themes are, broadly speaking, those of Sufism and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The narrative is the story of Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal, a Nicaraguan revolutionary Christian priest who had progressively acquired some spiritual and revolutionary interests in Islam after visiting certain Middle Eastern countries, especially Iran.' - F. B. Sekaleshfar, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 30:2, 128-131.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
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Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
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978-1-4438-3767-5 (9781443837675)
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Dr John Andrew Morrow received his PhD from the University of Toronto where he specialized in Hispanic Studies, Native Studies, and Arabic-Islamic Studies. He has taught at numerous institutions of higher learning, including the University of Toronto, Park University, Northern State University, Eastern New Mexico University and Ivy Tech. In the fall of 2011, he served as Professor of Advanced Spanish, Travel Literature, and Islamic Culture for the Institute for Shipboard Education's prestigious Semester at Sea program which is academically sponsored by the University of Virginia. Besides a large body of peer-reviewed academic articles and edited works, Professor Morrow is the author of Islamic Insights: Writings and Reviews, the Encyclopedia of Islamic Herbal Medicine, Amerindian Elements in the Poetry of Ernesto Cardenal: Mythic Foundations of the Colloquial Narrative, Amerindian Elements in the Poetry of Ruben Dario: The Alter Ego as the Indigenous Other, and Arabic, Islam, and the Allah Lexicon: How Language Shapes our Conception of God.
