Ecstasy and Enlightenment - The Ismaili Devotional Literature of South Asia

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ali S. Asani is Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Cultures at Harvard University.

Zusammenfassung

Situating the ginans - a large corpus of hymns and poems - in the larger context of Sufi, Bhakti and Sant poetry in medieval India, the author explores their history, characteristics, themes and prosody, as well as the unique Khojki script in which they were recorded.

Vorwort

Situating the ginans - a large corpus of hymns and poems - in the larger context of Sufi, Bhakti and Sant poetry in medieval India, the author explores their history, characteristics, themes and prosody, as well as the unique Khojki script in which they were recorded.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ali S. Asani, Asani Ali S.
• Mitarbeit: Annemarie Schimmel (Vorwort), Schimmel Annemarie (Vorwort)
• Verlag: I.B. Tauris
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 21.11.2003
• EAN: 9781860648281
• ISBN: 978-1-86064-828-1
• Seiten: 212
• Gewicht: 314 g
• Illustration: Illustrations
• Serien: Ismaili Heritage Series; Ismaili Heritage; Ismaili Heritage Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Islam, Pakistan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: poetry and poets