Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University)

Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi

Building an Ark

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Produktbeschreibung

Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi situates the diverse textual projects of 'Abd al-Q¿dir "B¿dil" and his students within the context of politically threatened but poetically prestigious Delhi, exploring the writers' use of the Perso-Arabic and Hindavi literary canons to fashion their authorship. Break

Produktdetails

• Iranian Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9780367876449
• ISBN-10: 0367876442
• Artikelnr.: 58440015

Autorenporträt

Prashant Keshavmurthy is Assistant Professor of Persian-Iranian Studies in the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. His research interests include late Mughal political discourses, Safavid-Mughal commentarial practices, Persian-Urdu poetics, Persian translations of Indic language works and Islamic autobiographical discourses.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Political Frailty and Poetic Power in Late Mughal Delhi 1
Bidil's Portrait: Ekphrasis as Ascetic Self-Transformation 2 Bidil's
Tarji-band: the Author's Kenotic Chorus 3 A Hindu Allegory of the Islamic
Philosopher King: the Tale of Madan and Kamdi in Bidil's Irfan 4 The Local
Universality of Poetic Pleasure: Siraj al-Din 'Ali-Khan "Arzu" and the
Speaking Subject 5 Khvushgu's Dream of Hafiz: Building an Ark with Arzu and
Bidil