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1 online resource (347 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature Series |
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Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- A Note On Transliteration and Other Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Situating Karbala in Bengal -- The Bengali Muslim Jatiy.ata Beyond the Nationalist Framework: A Proposal -- Karbala in the Battle of Islamic Reform: Pan-Islamism and the Regional Print Network -- Karbala in the Islamicate World: Between the "Universal" and the "Local" -- The Actors of Bengali Ummah: Problems With Categorisation in the Province |
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The Local and the Multilingual Literary Contexts -- Multilingual -- The Time-Space of the Local Karbala -- The Outline of the Book -- Why this Book Now? -- Notes -- 1 Mapping Karbala From Orality to Print -- Prologue -- 1.1 Creative Application of Islamic Ideas in Early Modern Bengal -- 1.1.1 Karbala in the Bengal Region -- 1.1.2 Translation/Rewriting as Intertextuality, Narrative as Speech Act -- 1.2 Dobhashi: The Language of the Popular -- 1.2.1 From Recitation to Print: At the Threshold -- 1.2.2 How Cheap, How Scriptural: The Internal Ambivalence of Dobhashi |
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1.3 Oral Forms, Scripted Format: Whatever Happened to the Performative? -- 1.4 Writing as Sacred Ritual: Turning Pain From Body to Book -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Print and Husayn-Centric Piety -- Prologue -- 2.1 New Sober Islam and the New Authors -- 2.1.1 Sunna and Maẓhab: Two Elements of Reformist Sensibilities -- 2.1.2 From Pir-Centric Piety to Prophet-Centric Piety: Muhammad as the Moral Template -- 2.2 The Caliphate and the Ahl Al-Bayt: Two Legacies of Muhammad and His Intercession -- 2.2.1 Namaz and the Ahl Al-Bayt: Muhammad's Twin Treasures |
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2.3 Fatima, the Mother of the Martyrs: The Template of Sabr -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The Rhetoric of Loss and Recovery: The Moment of Muslim jātīyatā -- Prologue -- 3.1 The Beginning of jātīẏatā: Bengaliness and Muslimness -- 3.1.1 The jātīẏa between Syed Ameer Ali and Jamāluddīn al-Afghānī -- 3.1.2 Anjumans, Periodicals and the New Print Network: Affiliation, Alliance and Antagonism -- 3.2 Talking Back to the Evangelists and Orientalists: Jesus Versus Muhammad -- 3.3 The Bangla-Urdu Divide: Bengali Muslims Between Region and Nation -- 3.4 Literariness of jātīẏa sāhitya -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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4 The Recovery of the Past: History and Biography -- Prologue -- 4.1 A Hindu Nationalist Script and the Muslim jātīẏa -- 4.1.1 The Search for jātīẏa: Territorial Expansion and Authentication -- 4.1.2 Writing the History of the Sacred: Between Medina and Mymensingh -- 4.2 Jībanī/Carit as a Modern Genre: The Contribution of Girishchandra Sen -- 4.3 Writing jātīẏa itihās and jībanī as modern literature: Between the rational and the miraculous -- 4.4 Other Histories and Other Biographies: Between the Pan-Islamic and the Province -- 4.5 Ummah, succession and the Karbala in Jātīẏa Sāhitya -- Conclusion |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Notes |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000531633 |
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1000531635 |
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