| Description |
1 online resource (221 pages) : portrait |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword: In Memory of Aditya Behl; Introduction: Mirigāvatī: The Magic Doe; Prologue; The Story of Mirigāvatī and Rājkunvar; Envoi; Notes |
| Summary |
Composed in 1503 as an introduction to mystical practice for disciples, this powerful Hindavi or early Hindi Sufi romance is a richly layered and sophisticated text, simultaneously a spiritual enigma and an exciting love story full of adventures. The Mirigāvāti is both an excellent introduction to Sufism and one of the true literary classics of pre-modern India, a story that draws freely on the large pool of Indian, Islamic, and European narrative motifs in its distinctive telling of a mystical quest and its resolution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from Hindi |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kutban, active 1493-1503 -- Translations into English
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| SUBJECT |
Kutban, active 1493-1503 fast |
| Subject |
Sufi poetry, Hindi -- Translations into English
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POETRY -- Middle Eastern.
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Sufi poetry, Hindi
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Behl, Aditya, 1966-2009.
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Doniger, Wendy
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| LC no. |
2011012523 |
| ISBN |
9780199842933 |
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0199842930 |
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0199842922 |
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9780199842926 |
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0199842949 |
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9780199842940 |
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0190258322 |
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9780190258320 |
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1283427575 |
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9781283427579 |
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9786613427571 |
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6613427578 |
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