Love's subtle magic : an Indian Islamic literary tradition, 1379-1545
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Love's subtle magic : an Indian Islamic literary tradition, 1379-1545
Oxford University Press, 2016
- : pbk
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power eventually reduced to vassalage almost every independent kingdom on the subcontinent. In Love's Subtle Magic, a remarkable and highly original book, Aditya Behl uses a little-understood genre of
Sufi literature to paint an entirely new picture of the evolution of Indian culture during the earliest period of Muslim domination.
These curious romantic tales transmit a profound religious message through the medium of adventurous stories of love. Although composed in the Muslim courts, they are written in a vernacular Indian language and involve Hindu yogis, Hindu princes and princesses, and Hindu gods. Until now, they have defied analysis. Behl shows that the Sufi authors of these charming tales sought to convey an Islamic vision via an Indian idiom. They thus constitute the earliest attempt at the indigenization of
Islamic literature in an Indian setting. More important, however, Behl's analysis brilliantly illuminates the cosmopolitan and composite culture of the Sultanate India in which they were composed. This in turn compels us completely to rethink the standard of the opposition between Indian Hindu and
foreign Muslim and recognize that the Indo-Islamic culture of this era was already significantly Indian in many important ways.
Table of Contents
Chapter 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
Index
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