Religion and Revolution: Spiritual and Political Islām in Ernesto Cardenal

Dr John Andrew Morrow received his PhD from the University of Toronto where he specialized in Hispanic Studies, Native Studies, and Arabic-Islāmic Studies. He has taught at numerous institutions of higher learning, including the University of Toronto, Park University, Northern State University, Eastern New Mexico University and Ivy Tech. In the fall of 2011, he served as Professor of Advanced Spanish, Travel Literature, and Islāmic Culture for the Institute for Shipboard Education’s prestigious Semester at Sea program which is academically sponsored by the University of Virginia. Besides a large body of peer-reviewed academic articles and edited works, Professor Morrow is the author of Islāmic Insights: Writings and Reviews, the Encyclopedia of Islāmic Herbal Medicine, Amerindian Elements in the Poetry of Ernesto Cardenal: Mythic Foundations of the Colloquial Narrative, Amerindian Elements in the Poetry of Rubén Darío: The Alter Ego as the Indigenous Other, and Arabic, Islām, and the Allāh Lexicon: How Language Shapes our Conception of God.