GOETHEOVI KOSMOPOLITSKI VIDICI ISLAMA
GOETHE’S COSMOPOLITAN VIEWS OF ISLAM

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents Goethe’s vision of Islam in major parts and expressions of the poet’s studies of Islam, that has begun at an early age, his recognition of his own aspirations and inclinations in Islamic religious values and life wisdom, his high-style communication with the works of Muslim poets and thinkers. This insight is presented as developing or weaving the universal meaning of Goethe’s pursuits of religious teaching and the spiritual inheritance of Islam on two essential determinants. One determinant is the unique position and universal significance of Goethe’s rise to the greatest German poet and the most versatile figure in European culture, the creator of the notion of world literature, and the reflection of that position and significance in Goethe’s positive attitude towards Islam. The second determinant is in the presence of Islamic inspirations and Muslim teachers in Goethe’s advancement to the universal and his transition to the universal, in his publication of the age of world literature in the era of the “West-East Divan.”

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