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9780195791488

Masnavi A Study of Urdu Romance

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195791488

  • ISBN10:

    0195791487

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-05-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This study looks at the romantic masnavi , the classical genre of Urdu literature, focusing on love-adventure poems written in northern India from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Author Biography

Anna Suvorova is professor of Indo-Islamic Culture at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Table of Contents

Dedication v
Introduction ix
Earthly Love and Celestial Love
1(43)
Poems about the quest for love
11(18)
Poems about the mystery of love
29(15)
As Powerful as Death
44(56)
Through fire, water, and brass trumpets
55(30)
Variations on the theme
85(15)
Triumph of Earthly Love
100(65)
The city and the world
110(23)
Man and the world
133(32)
Verbose Language of Love
165(48)
Whims of style
176(18)
Name of the rose
194(19)
Love's Labour Lost
213(35)
Diary of the pangs of the heart
223(25)
Conclusion 248(14)
Glossary 262(18)
Bibliography 280(5)
Index 285

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