Re: CITR and the Koran

I get the feeling Islam just didn't come into Salinger's sphere...I think
he would have only been attracted to the mystical schools of Islam, and
those literatures probably weren't as widely disseminated in English then
as they are now.

I also wonder how many Muslims were in and around NY in high profile in
Salinger's day.

Jim

Will Hochman wrote:

> As far as I know, Islam is not mentioned by Salinger in his fiction,
> but I'd love to be proven wrong because I think Salinger synthesized
> religious ideas in his stories without advocating organized religion.
> Warren French, in his introduction to Elizabeth Kurian's A Religious
> Response to the Existential Dilemma in the Fiction of J.D. Salinger wrote
> "As Dr. Kurian insists Salinger is never a propagandist for any one
> doctrine, but a synthesizer who after meditating on diverse traditions
> attempts, as she states 'to integrate Christianity, Hinduism and Zen
> Buddhism in his fiction.'" I would add that Salinger also addressed
> anti-semetism, and either Eberhard Alsen or Kurian (I think that's where
> I got this idea from...) noted that a Jewish sense of family may
> represent Jewish thinking as part of Salinger's mixing of religious
> thinking into his fiction. If Salinger is indeed synthesizing Buddhism,
> Christianity, Hinduism and Judiasm, why isn't Islam in the mix? will

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