1st Edition
The English Translation of Cāndāyan The Pioneer Indo-Sufī Masnavī of Maulanā Dāūd
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Ali S. Asani
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
1. Introduction
What is Cāndāyan?
The Socio-Political Milieu of the Masnavī
The Chishti Sufi Order in India
Amir Khusrau and the Qawwālī
Maulana Daud
The Structural Design of Cāndāyan
a. The Prologue
b. The Abode of the Beloved
c. The Nakha-Sìikha Varnana
d. The Bārahmāsā in Cāndāyan
e. A Mystic’s Spiritual Journey
f. The Reconciliation/Homecoming
g. The ‘Key’ to the Masnavī
2. Cāndāyan
3. Finding Cāndāyan
Translation Process vis-à-vis the Language and the Prosody
Appendices
1. Sufi Masnavīs in India
2. The Chishti Sufi Order in India
3. Ruler and Noblemen in Cāndāyan
Sources of Appendices
Bibliography
Biography
Naseem A. Hines has taught medieval and modern Hindi literature and Urdu prose and poetry at the University of Washington, Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, Boston University, Wellesley College and the University of British Columbia. She lives in Seattle now where she continues to teach Sufi poetry.
