An Islamic reading of Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

• Main Author: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: BP170.8 Universality of Islam; PN0080 Criticism; PR English literature
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/68522/2/Symposium%20Poster.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/68522/3/Tentative%20Program%20Updated%2027062018%20Approved%20by%20the%20Dean.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/68522/14/mahmud_symposium_elegy%20written%20in%20a%20country%20churchyard%20%281%29.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/68522/

Perhaps, the earliest literary scholar to significantly discuss the issue of looking at English literature from an Islamic perspective is Syed Ali Ashraf (1925 – 1998). His “Islamic Principles and Methods in the Teaching of Literature” (1978) is a foundational work that discusses the place of litera...