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OverviewThis book is the first English translation of Cāndāyan, the pioneer work in a long tradition of Indian-Sufi love narratives. The story was adapted from an oral epic Chanaini, popular in the Awadhi speaking region of north India in the fourteenth century. The early manuscripts of Cāndāyan, though composed in the Awadhi dialect, were recorded in the Persian script. Each stanza-like unit is introduced by a phrase or sentences in the Persian language style, making it necessary for a reader to know the Persian script and language, as well as the Awadhi dialect. This somewhat limits the access to fully explore Cāndāyan. In addition to this, the esoteric interpretation, which is the distinguishing feature that gives the Indian-Sufi masnavī literature its unique identity, was also not yet realized. Cāndāyan deserves to be celebrated and recognized because it marks the beginning of the indigenizing process of the masnavī in India, and served as a model for this literary genre for the next 540 years. A serious study of Maulana Daud’s Cāndāyan, composed in 1379, in the reign of Firoz Shah Tughlaq, did not begin until well into the twentieth century because only a few pages of its manuscript folios were discovered at a time, in various academic institutions and museums around the world. Cāndāyan is a fascinating study of the blending of the features of the Persian masnavī with the features of the Hindi premākhyān narratives and the features of the medieval Jain literature. Even today, annually in the Mahakoshala region Cāndāyan is presented in the form of drama and in the folk-song and play forms. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan) Full Product DetailsAuthor: Naseem A. HinesPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.784kg ISBN: 9781032520780ISBN 10: 1032520787 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 16 June 2023 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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 BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationNaseem 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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