Ruby in the dust : poetry and history in Padmâvat by the South-Asian Sufi poet Muhammad Jâyasî / Thomas de Bruijn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruijn, Thomas de.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malik Muhammad Jayasi, fl. 1540. Padmāvata.

Malik Muhammad Jayasi.

Urdu poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Urdu poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Padmavat (1540 CE) by the Indian Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi is a classic of pre-modern Indian literature. It relates how the Rajput king Ratansen of Chitor finds and marries the beautiful princess Padmavati, and how the sultan Alauddin Khilji, on hearing of her beauty, besieges Chitor in a fruitless attempt to capture her.

Contents:

Ruby in the dust; table of contents; preface; A note on transliteration; Introduction; Part 1; Chapter I Th poet and the literary field; Chapter II Text, transmission and reception; Chapter III The literary context of Padmavat; Chapter IV Structure and meaning in Padmavat; Part 2; Chapter V A poem of love; Chapter VI The metaphoric scheme of light; Chapter VII The messenger; Chapter VIII Conclusion: Jayasi and the literary field; References; Appendix; Glossary; Index

Notes:

"The present study is based on the PhD dissertation The Ruby Hidden in the Dust : A study of the poetics of Malik Muhammad Jāyasi's Padmāvat, defended in the 1996 at Leiden University."--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786613522726

9781280118432

1280118431

9789400600317

9400600313

OCLC:

782878252

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_595095