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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Aditya Behl (formerly Associate Professor of South Asian Studies (deceased), formerly Associate Professor of South Asian Studies (deceased), University of Pennsylvania) , Wendy Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.10cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780190628802ISBN 10: 0190628804 Pages: 418 Publication Date: 08 September 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Studying the Sultanate Period Chapter 2: Inaugurating Hindavi Chapter 3: Creating a New Genre: The Candayan Chapter 4: Oceans and Stories: The Mirigivati Chapter 5: The Landscape of Paradise and the Embodied City: The Padmavat, Part 1 Chapter 6: The Conquest of Chittaur: The Padmavat, Part 2 Chapter 7: Bodies That Signify: The Madhumalati, Part 1 Chapter 8: The Seasons of Madhumalati's Separation: The Madhumalati, Part 2 Chapter 9: Hierarchies of Response Epilogue: The Story of Stories Notes IndexReviewsDoniger has edited an excellent volume constructed from lectures and drafts written by the late Behl...This volume is an indispensable guide to a long-ignored literary genre that provides glimpses into a society in which Hindus and Muslims, kings and commoners, composed a social order now divided into two hostile communities...Highly recommended. CHOICE Aditya Behl's magnum opus is the consummation of his long quest for the multiple meanings of four fourteenth- to sixteenth-century epic romances, Indic and Hindu in language and imagery, yet written by Muslim poets attached to Sufi orders. His magisterial and lucid analysis, graced by lovely translations and suffused by his passion for storytelling, transcends the communalized assumptions of much modern scholarship on these enigmatic poems, to persuasively reconstruct their contemporary contexts of religious, political, and gender ideologies and of courtly and esoteric performance. Philip Lutgendorf, author of Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey In this multi-faceted work Aditya Behl shows persuasively that the Avadhi Sufi romances not only belong to a 'regional or Hindustani literary tradition with its own poets and politics,' but also move within a 'larger Islamicate world in which stories, people, and merchandise travelled freely.' Thus the 'yogic garb of the Sufi seeker and his sensuous meeting with the divinely beautiful beloved' must be read within a Sufistically inflected 'generic logic.' Behl does an elegant job of elucidating the allegorical complexities of this logic; it is sad to realize that we will have no more such work from him. Frances W. Pritchett, Professor of Modern Indic Languages, Columbia University If India is an ocean of stories, its deepest currents are mysticism, its highest waves poetry. Only the most masterful of fishermen could test these waters with hope of success. Aditya Behl has done the nearly miraculous: he has given us all the catch from his wondrous, too brief, time as the supreme troller and the compleat angler of pre-modern Indian Sufi romances. Wendy Doniger has paid a tribute to his genius, putting it on display as if by an act of legerdemain in editing this long but never disappointing treasure trove of Hindustan. Bruce Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, Duke University If India is an ocean of stories, its deepest currents are mysticism, its highest waves poetry. Only the most masterful of fishermen could test these waters with hope of success. Aditya Behl has done the nearly miraculous: he has given us all the catch from his wondrous, too brief, time as the supreme troller and the compleat angler of pre-modern Indian Sufi romances. Wendy Doniger has paid a tribute to his genius, putting it on display as if by an act of legerdemain in editing this long but never disappointing treasure trove of Hindustan. * Bruce Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion, Duke University * In this multi-faceted work Aditya Behl shows persuasively that the Avadhi Sufi romances not only belong to a 'regional or Hindustani literary tradition with its own poets and politics,' but also move within a 'larger Islamicate world in which stories, people, and merchandise travelled freely.' Thus the 'yogic garb of the Sufi seeker and his sensuous meeting with the divinely beautiful beloved' must be read within a Sufistically inflected 'generic logic.' Behl does an elegant job of elucidating the allegorical complexities of this logic; it is sad to realize that we will have no more such work from him. * Frances W. Pritchett, Professor of Modern Indic Languages, Columbia University * Aditya Behl's magnum opus is the consummation of his long quest for the multiple meanings of four fourteenth- to sixteenth-century epic romances, Indic and Hindu in language and imagery, yet written by Muslim poets attached to Sufi orders. His magisterial and lucid analysis, graced by lovely translations and suffused by his passion for storytelling, transcends the communalized assumptions of much modern scholarship on these enigmatic poems, to persuasively reconstruct their contemporary contexts of religious, political, and gender ideologies and of courtly and esoteric performance. * Philip Lutgendorf, author of Hanuman's Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey * Doniger has edited an excellent volume constructed from lectures and drafts written by the late Behl...This volume is an indispensable guide to a long-ignored literary genre that provides glimpses into a society in which Hindus and Muslims, kings and commoners, composed a social order now divided into two hostile communities...Highly recommended. * CHOICE * Author InformationAditya 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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