Ecstasy and Enlightenment - The Ismaili Devotional Literature of South Asia

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Foreword

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ali S. Asani, Asani Ali S.
• Assisted by: Annemarie Schimmel (Foreword), Schimmel Annemarie (Foreword)
• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2003
• EAN: 9781860648281
• ISBN: 978-1-86064-828-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Weight: 314 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: Ismaili Heritage Series; Ismaili Heritage; Ismaili Heritage Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; 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