Hali's Musaddas : the flow and ebb of Islam
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Hali's Musaddas : the flow and ebb of Islam
(SOAS South Asian texts)
Oxford University Press, 1997
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes text of the original Urdu work with English translation
Summary: Critical analysis of K̲h̲vājah Alt̤āf Ḥusain Ḥālī's Musaddas-i Ḥālī, didactic narrative Urdu poem on early Islamic history
Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-86) and index
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A critical presentation in English of Hali's epic poem, "The Musaddas" on "The Ebb and Flow of Islam" - a landmark in the development of Urdu poetry as of modern Indian literature. The first part of the book consists of a critical introduction and analysis of the poem, in the context of the historical, political and literary background of the age. The second contains an English translation of the poem, with facing Urdu text, an appendix listing Hali's revisions, a glossary of key words in the poem, and a full index.
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