Witness to marvels : Sufism and literary imagination /

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"Witness to Marvels traces the development of a unique genre of Sufi-inspired Bengali romances called pir kathas, whose protagonists and plots are wholly fictive. For five centuries these fabulations have parodied Indigenous and Hindu textual traditions. Both mimicking and mocking, these parodi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stewart, Tony K., 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Colección:Islamic Humanities.
Temas:
Bengali literature > Social aspects > India > Bengal.
Romance fiction, Bengali.
Islam and literature > India > Bengal.
Sufism > India > Bengal.
Hinduism > India > Bengal.
Islam et littérature > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
Soufisme > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
Hindouisme > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
Littérature bengali > Aspect social > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde)
Asian history.
Religion: general.
RELIGION / Islam / History
Bengali literature > Social aspects
Hinduism
Islam and literature
Romance fiction, Bengali
Sufism
India > Bengal
16th century.
animal.
divine.
fictional sufi saints.
hindu gods and goddesses.
human.
imaginal literature in bengali.
islams distinctive form in bengal.
mythological world.
parodic work of pir katha.
pir katha.
pragmatics of pir katha.
precolonial south asia.
structures of narrative romance.
studies of south asia.
superhuman.
tales of sufi saints.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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