Ecstasy and Enlightenment - The Ismaili Devotional Literature of South Asia

Info autore

Ali Asani is Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures at Harvard University, US. At Harvard he has served as the Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Prince Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program. He is the author of Celebrating Muhammad (1995), The Harvard Collection of Ismaili Literatures in Indic Languages (1992) and Ecstasy and Enlightenment (2002).Annemarie Schimmel was for many years a Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture at Harvard University and before that Professor of Islamic Studies at Ankara and Bonn. In 1995, she was the recipient of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Riassunto

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.

Prefazione

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ali S. Asani, Asani Ali S.
• Con la collaborazione di: Annemarie Schimmel (Prefazione), Schimmel Annemarie (Prefazione)
• Editore: I.B. Tauris
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.11.2003
• EAN: 9781860648281
• ISBN: 978-1-86064-828-1
• Pagine: 212
• Peso: 314 g
• Illustrazioni: Illustrations
• Serie: Ismaili Heritage Series; Ismaili Heritage; Ismaili Heritage Series
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; 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