Love's Subtle Magic
Behl, Aditya:
Love's Subtle Magic : an Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545 / Aditya Behl ; edited by Wendy Doniger. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. - ca. 416 S.
ISBN 978-0-19-514670-7
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Beschreibung
The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power eventually reduced to vassalage almost every independent kingdom on the subcontinent. In Love's Subtle Magic, a remarkable and highly original book, Aditya Behl uses a little-understood genre of Sufi literature to paint an entirely new picture of the evolution of Indian culture during the earliest period of Muslim domination. These curious romantic tales transmit a profound religious message through the medium of adventurous stories of love. Although composed in the Muslim courts, they are written in a vernacular Indian language and involve Hindu yogis, Hindu princes and princesses, and Hindu gods. Until now, they have defied analysis. Behl shows that the Sufi authors of these charming tales sought to convey an Islamic vision via an Indian idiom. They thus constitute the earliest attempt at the indigenization of Islamic literature in an Indian setting. More important, however, Behl's analysis brilliantly illuminates the cosmopolitan and composite culture of the Sultanate India in which they were composed. This in turn compels us completely to rethink the standard of the opposition between Indian Hindu and foreign Muslim and recognize that the Indo-Islamic culture of this era was already significantly Indian in many important ways. [Verlagsinformation]
Inhalt
The Reconstruction of the Text. vii
Acknowledgments. ix
1. Studying the Sultanate Period. 1
2. Inaugurating Hindavī. 30
3. Creating a New Genre: The Cāndāyan. 59
4. Oceans and Stories: The Mirigāvatī. 109
5. The Landscape of Paradise and the Embodied City: The Padmāvat, Part 1. 141
6. The Conquest of Chittaur: The Padmavat, Part 2. 177
7. Bodies That Signify: The Madhumālatī, Part 1. 218
8. The Seasons of Madhumālatī's Separation: The Madhumālatī, Part 2. 264
9. Hierarchies of Response. 286
Epilogue: The Story of Stories. 325
Notes. 339
Index. 383
Autor / Herausgeberin
Aditya Behl (1966-2009) was Associate Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. Profile page. Wikipedia [en].
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