Poe’s Quranic Inspiration
Abdul-Rahman Arif discovers a poem by famous American writer and poet, Edgar Allen Poe, inspired by stories from the Quran.
The poem is called Al-Aaraaf, which Muslims will know as the name of the seventh Surah of the Quran. The poem is quite long, but is interesting to analyze to see from where Poe drew his inspiration. Wikipedia has some further details about the poem.
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Very interesting, but i started to read the poem at silly-o-clock, so was not appreciating the imagery. Inshallah, will have another go later!
salam alaikom
well i am trying to do a sort of a cmomparative study between american writers and arab ones and poe’s quotation surely attrected me because as amuslim i know that such an imagery of Israfel does not exist nighther in Quraan nor in Sunna. thank u any way and good luck.
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