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Love's Subtle Magic

Love's Subtle Magic

An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545

by Aditya Behl and Wendy Doniger
Hardback
Publication Date: 29/11/2012

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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power eventually reduced to vassalage almost every independent kingdom on the subcontinent. In Love's Subtle Magic, a remarkable and highly original book, Aditya Behl uses a little-understood genre of
Sufi literature to paint an entirely new picture of the evolution of Indian culture during the earliest period of Muslim domination. These curious romantic tales transmit a profound
religious message through the medium of adventurous stories of love. Although composed in the Muslim courts, they are written in a vernacular Indian language and involve Hindu yogis, Hindu princes and princesses, and Hindu gods. Until now, they have defied analysis. Behl shows that the Sufi authors of these charming tales sought to convey an Islamic vision via an Indian idiom. They thus constitute the earliest attempt at the indigenization of Islamic literature in an Indian setting. More
important, however, Behl's analysis brilliantly illuminates the cosmopolitan and composite culture of the Sultanate India in which they were composed. This in turn compels us completely to rethink the
standard of the opposition between Indian Hindu and foreign Muslim and recognize that the Indo-Islamic culture of this era was already significantly Indian in many important ways.
ISBN:
9780195146707
9780195146707
Category:
Sufism & Islamic mysticism
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
29-11-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
156x234x27mm
Weight:
0kg

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