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Attempted Iconoclasm: Mahmud of Ghazna, King Yoga, and the Poet Dhanapāla

Andrew Ollett
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 309–324.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987762
Published: 01 August 2022
... clear what happens next, but it seems that the axes bounced back on him and struck him on the head (v. 7). Dhanapāla says that the marks from the axes are still visible on the image. This remark suggests, again, that these events happened in the distant past, since poets often use this language (“still...
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The Varied Voices of Dalit Poets from Maharashtra: A Collection of Translations

Eleanor Zelliot
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 69–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-7-1_and_2-69
Published: 01 August 1987
...Eleanor Zelliot Copyright 1987: South Asia Bulletin 1987 SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN Vol. 7 (1987). THE VARlED VOICES OF DALIT POETS FROM MAHARASHTRA: A COLLECTION OF TRANSLATIONS Eleanor Zelliot REVOLUTION...
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Going Native: Iranian Émigré Poets and Indo-Persian

Arthur Dudney
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 531–548.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4279236
Published: 01 December 2017
... Ahmad, Safawid Poets and India ; Eaton, Patterns of Migration ; and in more detail Gulchin Ma ani, Karvan- i Hind. The classic work on the subject with an administrative focus is Chandra, Parties and Politics. Various works produced in collabo- ration between Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam...
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Mah Laqa Bai and Gender: The Language, Poetry, and Performance of a Courtesan in Hyderabad

Scott Kugle
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 365–385.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2010-020
Published: 01 December 2010
... in the court of the second Nizam of Hyderabad, Nizam `Ali Khan (r. 1762–1803), and the third Nizam, Sikandar Jah (r. 1803–29), as well as being mistress to their prime ministers of Iranian descent. She was one of the first women poets to compile a full divan of Urdu ghazals and was adept at music and dance...
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Defining a Tradition: The Literary Science of Rajasthani at the Dawn of Colonialism

Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 381–387.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987866
Published: 01 August 2022
...Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit Abstract Allison Busch's seminal work on the classical Hindi literature of Mughal India demonstrated how the composition of works of poetic theory ( ritigranth s) became a defining literary enterprise of vernacular court poets in the Mughal-Rajput milieu. Though firmly based...
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Fayzi's Illuminationist Interpretation of Vedanta: The Shariq al-ma`rifa

Carl W. Ernst
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 356–364.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2010-019
Published: 01 December 2010
...Carl W. Ernst The Mogul court poet Fayzi (AD 1547–95) is credited with the composition of the Shariq al-ma`rifa , a Persian text offering an interpretation of Indian philosophy drawing on Sufi and Neoplatonic (Illuminationist) terms and categories. This article examines how the author subordinates...
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Poetry, Power, Protest: Reimagining Muslim Nationhood in Northern Pakistan

Nosheen Ali
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (1): 13–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1545336
Published: 01 May 2012
... performances constitute a critical public arena for protesting political dispossession and for nurturing a postsectarian, religious harmony in the region. The article also complicates our understanding of the state, as several of the poets in Gilgit work for the local government. From this overlapping position...
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The Making of Modernity in Persianate Literary History

Alexander Jabbari
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 418–434.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3698971
Published: 01 December 2016
... this process. Four aspects of modern literary history writing receive particular focus here: engagement with the tazkirah tradition, inclusion of extraliterary national figures alongside poets, use of a shared set of references and sources, and new sexual aesthetics that break with the homoerotic Persianate...
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A Note on Tulsi Parab, the Writer and the Man

Wandana Sonalkar
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 500–502.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3699043
Published: 01 December 2016
...Wandana Sonalkar Sonalkar's piece is a tribute to the late poet Tulsi Parab and serves as an introduction to the English translations of four of Parab's poems. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Tulsi Parab poetry Marathi Bombay leftist...
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Poetic Links across the Ocean: On Poetic Translation as Mimetic Practice at the Swahili Coast

Clarissa Vierke
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 321–335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4132941
Published: 01 August 2017
... of mimesis as advanced by Michael Taussig and Matthias Krings, Vierke shows that the Swahili poet makes an effort to imitate the original by re-evoking its sceneries as well as its tone in palpable Swahili imagery and meter. The connection over the Indian Ocean is hence not merely discursive...
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Heartless Acts: Literary Competition and Multilingual Association at a Graveside Gathering in Eighteenth-Century Delhi

Nathan Lee Marsh Tabor
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 82–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-7493799
Published: 01 May 2019
...Nathan Lee Marsh Tabor Abstract This article examines a posthumous literary gathering held at the grave of eighteenth-century Persian-language poet ‘Abd al-Qadir Bedil (1642–1720) in order to trace varying uses of a peculiar shrine space and its Persianate textual practices in late-Mughal Delhi...
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The Visual Economy of “Precious Books”: Publishing, Modern Art, and the Design of Arabic Books

Zeina Maasri
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 95–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-8186104
Published: 01 May 2020
... series, 1967–70), published in Beirut by Dar an-Nahar and edited by modernist poet Yusuf al-Khal (1917–87). The series engaged prominent Arab artists and foregrounded the aesthetic dimension of the printed Arabic book as a “precious” art object. Situated historically at the threshold of contemporary...
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“Two Kings” in the Tungkhungia Court?: Love and Courtly Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century Hindustan

Samyak Ghosh
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987814
Published: 01 August 2022
... a unique political arrangement (“two kings”) was expressed by courtiers, chroniclers, and poets in the language of a stylized fiction of love. The article tries to make meaning of the “two kings” problem by looking at a set of textual and visual materials and situates them within a context of “multilayered...
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The Transcultural Eros of the Manchester Cāndāyana

Molly Emma Aitken, Allison Busch
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 293–308.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987749
Published: 01 August 2022
...Molly Emma Aitken; Allison Busch Abstract This essay explores a single illustrated manuscript of Maulana Daud's Sufi narrative the Cāndāyana from the Rylands Library, Manchester, to help make sense of how Sufi poets and the sultanate-period painters who illustrated their verses realized...
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Lyric Lifeforms: Toward a Theory of Lyric Poetry in the Corpus of Mīrājī (1912–1949)

Meghan Hartman
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 476–491.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11470391
Published: 01 December 2024
...Meghan Hartman Abstract This article works toward a theory of lyric in the literary corpus of Mīrājī (1912–1949), an Urdu poet, translator, and critic. The article argues that the lyric is an especially salient place to evaluate the phenomenality of such a relationship between self and world...
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Fayzi's Planetary Poetics: A Theory of Poetry

Jane Mikkelson
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 460–475.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11470431
Published: 01 December 2024
...Jane Mikkelson Abstract This article recovers a theory of poetry articulated by the Indian poet laureate Abul Fayz Fayzi (d. 1595) in “The White Tide of Dawn” (“Tabashir-i subh”), the Persian prose preface to his collected poems. Fayzi's oblique style of thought wanders through shifting metaphors...
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Time and the Lyric: A Reading of Bilhaṇa's Caurapañcāśikā

Shiv Subramaniam
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 437–446.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11470439
Published: 01 December 2024
... poems tend to share: a resistance to the laws of time. In order to illustrate what this resistance to time amounts to, the article begins with a reading of the Caurapañcāśikā ( The Thief's Fifty ), an exemplary collection of Sanskrit lyrics attributed to the eleventh-century poet Bilhaṇa...
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Precarious Songs: The Taṉippāṭal , Tamil Genre Theory, and Comparative Literary Criticisms of South Asia

Kristina Rogahn
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 492–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11470487
Published: 01 December 2024
... part reconstructs Tamil taṉippāṭal criticism through close readings of lives of poets ( carittiram ), which narrativize the poetic utterance within a rhetorical event. It discusses how this critical style reveals a unique theory of the lyric. Finally, the article considers the possibilities and limits...
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Who Killed Arjun Singh?: Poetry and History in Bundelkhand

William R. Pinch
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 370–380.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987853
Published: 01 August 2022
... described in the poems. These journeys revealed convincing evidence, in the form of oral tradition, that Arjun was killed by his kinsmen (and not by Anupgiri). Though this necessarily complicates a straightforward reading of early Hindi poetry as history, it also prompts further reflection on why the poets...
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Amir Khusraw and the Genre of Historical Narratives in Verse

Sunil Sharma
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 112–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-22-1-2-112
Published: 01 August 2002
...Sunil Sharma Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Amir Khusraw and the Genre of Historical Narratives in Verse1 Sunil Sharma One of the literary innovations credited to the Indo- court with Fakhr al-Din Gurgani, culminating in the works of Persian poet...
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