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Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi Building an Ark
By Prashant Keshavmurthy
Copyright 2016
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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Writing in the eighteenth century, the Persian-language litterateurs of late Mughal Delhi were aware that they could no longer take for granted the relations of Persian with Islamic imperial power, relations that had enabled Persian literary life to flourish in India since the tenth century C.E. Persian Authorship and Canonicity in Late Mughal Delhi situates the diverse textual projects... Read more
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
Biography
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.
