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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Meaningful Rituals: Persian, Arabic and Bengali in the Nurnama Tradition of Eastern Bengal explores a corpus of texts that centre around the creation of the world by God through his prophet Muhammad in his primordial form as a luminous entity. These short accounts, which bear the title Nurnama (The Book of Light), played two roles: as conveyers of knowledge regarding basic Islamic beliefs and cosmology, and as ritual texts meant to protect and bring prosperity to those who read and preserved the physical artefact of the book that contained that knowledge. In addition to introductory chapters on Muslim literacy in eastern Bengal and the treatment of light in scholastic and non-scholastic Muslim literature, Meaningful Rituals contains the text and annotated translations of several Persian and Bengali versions of the Nurnama, written between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. A close study of this tradition in eastern Bengal demonstrates the rural literati's engagement with the Persian and Arabic languages and literacy. Beyond the domain of Bengali language and literature, the book opens a new chapter on Indo-Persian studies by shedding light on the didactic and ritual uses of Persian texts in rural Bengal.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. KlappentextJ&#257m&#299 in Regional Contexts is a study of the reception of the polymath &#703Abd al-Ra&#7717m&#257n J&#257m&#299 (d. 898/1492) s works in various regional traditions throughout the Islamicate world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jami in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ?Abd Al-Ra?man Jami's Works in the Islamicate World is the first attempt to present in a comprehensive manner how ?Abd al-Ra?man Jami (d. 898/1492), a most influential figure in the Persian-speaking world, reshaped the canons of Islamic mysticism, literature and poetry and how, in turn, this new canon prompted the formation of regional traditions. As a result, a renewed geography of intellectual practices emerges as well as questions surrounding authorship and authority in the making of vernacular cultures. Specialists of Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Georgian, Malay, Pashto, Sanskrit, Urdu, Turkish, and Bengali thus provide a unique connected account of the conception and reception of Jami's works throughout the Eurasian continent and maritime Southeast Asia.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 866 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Jāmī in Regional Contexts is a study of the reception of the polymath ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492)'s works in various regional traditions throughout the Islamicate world.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorThibaut d Hubert, Ph.D. (2010), is Associate Professor in the department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He has published several articles on Middle Bengali and Indo-Pers.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jami in Regional Contexts: The Reception of ?Abd Al-Ra?man Jami's Works in the Islamicate World is the first attempt to present in a comprehensive manner how ?Abd al-Ra?man Jami (d. 898/1492), a most influential figure in the Persian-speaking world, reshaped the canons of Islamic mysticism, literature and poetry and how, in turn, this new canon prompted the formation of regional traditions. As a result, a renewed geography of intellectual practices emerges as well as questions surrounding authorship and authority in the making of vernacular cultures. Specialists of Persian, Arabic, Chinese, Georgian, Malay, Pashto, Sanskrit, Urdu, Turkish, and Bengali thus provide a unique connected account of the conception and reception of Jami's works throughout the Eurasian continent and maritime Southeast Asia.…