Urdu and Indo-Persian thought, poetics, and belles lettres / / edited by Alireza Korangy.

• TeilnehmendeR: Korangy, Alireza.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Indological Library 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 pages).

Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres , is a collection on the subject of Urdu poetics, Dastan, translation studies in Urdu, and Indo-Persian. The essays employ interdisciplinary perspectives for exploring the dynamic literary landscape of the South Asian subcontinent since the sixteenth century. The individual topics in the collection depict a plausible picture of how the development of Urdu and Indo-Persian thoughts and poetics have influenced one another for centuries. Contributors are: Satya Hedge, Prashant Keshavmurthy, Pasha M. Khan, Mehr Afshan Faruqi, David Lelyveld, Natalia Prigarina, Carla Petievich, Christina Oesterheld, Baidar Bakht, Frances Pritchett, Gail Minault, Ludmila Vassilieva.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- K̲h̲ushgū’s Dream of Ḥāfiz̤: Authorship, Temporality, and Canonicity in Late Mughal India / Prashant Keshavmurthy -- Notes on ʿAbdul Nabī Fak̲h̲rul Zamānī and Other Indo-Persian Storytellers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Pasha M. Khan -- Ḥāfiz̤ in the Poetry and Philosophy of Muḥammad Iqbāl / Natalia Prigarina -- Revisiting that Earth(l)y, Glorious Tradition / Carla Petievich -- Continuing the Tradition: A Commentary on the “Neglected” Verses of G̲h̲ālib / Mehr Afshan Farooqi -- Voyeur Candle, Tattler Candle: The Semiotics of nāyikābheda in G̲h̲ālib’s Urdu Dīvān 39.1 / Satayanarayana Hegde -- Mīr as Suffering Curmudgeon: A Historical Hatchet Job / Frances Pritchett -- “I am a Ruby Wrapped in a Rag”: Zay K̲h̲ay Sheen and the Possibility of Poetry as Autobiography / Gail Minault -- “The Tide and Flow of Islam” / Ludmila Vasilyeva -- Jūtē haiṉ jāpānī kaprē inglistānī: Sayyid Ross Masood’s Passage to Japan / David Lelyveld -- From a Slave Garden into Cyberspace: Mirza Athar Baig’s Novels G̲h̲ulām Bāg̲h̲ and Ṣifr Se Ek Tak / Christina Oesterheld -- A Translation of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s Prem Kumar Nazar / Baidar Bakht -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.