A Descriptive Catalogue of Bengali Manuscripts in Munshi Abdul Karim's Collection
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 656
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Author: University of Dacca. Library
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Asiatic Society of Pakistan
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 589
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Dacca
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Published: 1960
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Munši ʻAbd-al-Karīm
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 589
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Published: 1960
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thibaut d'Hubert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-03-01
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 0190860340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. The book maps the genres, structures, and themes of Alaol's works, paying special attention to his discourse on poetics and his literary genealogy, which included Sanskrit, Avadhi, Maithili, Persian, and Bengali authors. D'Hubert focuses on courtly speech in Alaol's poetry, his revisiting of classical categories in a vernacular context, and the prominent role of performing arts in his conceptualization of the poetics of the written word. The foregrounding of this audacious theory of meaning in Alaol's poetry is a crucial contribution of the book, both in terms of general conceptual analysis and for its significance in the history of Bengali poetry. This book shows how multilingual literacy fostered a variety of literary experiments in the remote kingdom of Arakan, which lay between present-day southeastern Bangladesh and Myanmar, in the mid-17th century. D'Hubert also presents a detailed analysis of Middle Bengali narrative poems, as well as translations of Old Maithili, Brajabuli, and Middle Bengali lyric poems that illustrate the major poetic styles in the regional courts of eastern South Asia. In the Shade of the Golden Palace therefore fulfills three functions: it is a unique guide for readers of Middle Bengali poetry, a detailed study of the cultural history of the frontier region of Arakan, and an original contribution to the poetics of South Asian literatures.
Author: Tony K. Stewart
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-09-13
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0520306333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. There is a vast body of imaginal literature in Bengali that introduces fictional Sufi saints into the complex mythological world of Hindu gods and goddesses. Dating to the sixteenth century, the stories—pīr katha—are still widely read and performed today. The events that play out rival the fabulations of the Arabian Nights, which has led them to be dismissed as simplistic folktales, yet the work of these stories is profound: they provide fascinating insight into how Islam habituated itself into the cultural life of the Bangla-speaking world. In Witness to Marvels, Tony K. Stewart unearths the dazzling tales of Sufi saints to signal a bold new perspective on the subtle ways Islam assumed its distinctive form in Bengal.