Saeed Naqvi

Gebundenes Buch

Being the Other

The Muslim in India

Beschreibung

The clouds are moving ecstatically from Kashi to Mathura and the sky will remain covered with dense clouds as long as there is Krishna in Braj. These lines were composed by Mohsin Kakorvi, a Muslim poet, to celebrate not Lord Krishna's birthday but that of the Prophet Muhammad. Awadh, the author's birthplace, was steeped in this sort of syncretism in which Islam and Hinduism complemented and celebrated each other and Urdu culture merged with Awadhi and Brajbhasha. Sadly, this glorious culture ha

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Repro India Limited
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 511g
• ISBN-13: 9789384067229
• ISBN-10: 9384067229
• Artikelnr.: 53304051