[Series] The Crescent and the Cross (schedule)

NOTE: This page is intended as a thematic overview of the meetups in the series, but is not itself a meetup. To RSVP, please see the individual events as they are announced on the Wisdom and Woe calendar. This page will be updated as necessary to reflect changes to the schedule.

For a descriptive overview of this series, see here:

• The Crescent and the Cross (introduction)

Schedule:

• Arabian Nights - 7/9, 7/16
• The Gulistan - Sa'di - 7/23
• The Divan of Hafez - 7/29 [Sat]
• Romantic Fragments - 7/30
• The Hero as Prophet - Carlyle - 8/6
• The Life of Jesus - Renan - 8/13
• Jerusalem Delivered - Tasso - 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/10
• The Interior Castle - St. Teresa - 9/17, 9/24
• Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land - 10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17
• New Year Letter - Auden - 12/31
• The Prisoner of Al-Hakim - Bradley Steffens - 1/14
• The Return of the Druses - Robert Browning - 1/21
• Journey to the Orient - Nerval - 1/28, 2/4
• Vathek - Beckford - 2/11
• Journal of a Visit to the Levant - 2/18
• The Talisman - Sir Walter Scott - 2/25, 3/3, 3/10
• Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion - Blake - 3/17
• Jesus: The Son of Man - Kahlil Gibran - 3/24
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Samuel Johnson - 3/31
• Hayy ibn Yaqdhan - Ibn Tufail - 4/6 [Sat]
• The Conference of the Birds - Attar - 4/7
• Ishmael: A Study of the Symbolic Mode In Primitivism - James Baird - 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12