The Muhammad Avatara examines the under-studied seventeenth-century Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan, revealing the role of vernacular translation in the spread of Islam to Bengal. The Nabivamsa retells the life of the Prophet Muhammad for the first time to Bengalis in their mother-tongue. In this book, Ayesha Irani delineates the challenges Saiyad Sultan faced in articulating the pre-eminence of Islam in a land where multiple religious affiliations were common. This text-critical study lays bare the sophisticated strategies of translation used by a prominent early modern Muslim Bengali intellectual to invite others to his faith.…mehr
The Muhammad Avatara examines the under-studied seventeenth-century Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan, revealing the role of vernacular translation in the spread of Islam to Bengal. The Nabivamsa retells the life of the Prophet Muhammad for the first time to Bengalis in their mother-tongue. In this book, Ayesha Irani delineates the challenges Saiyad Sultan faced in articulating the pre-eminence of Islam in a land where multiple religious affiliations were common. This text-critical study lays bare the sophisticated strategies of translation used by a prominent early modern Muslim Bengali intellectual to invite others to his faith.
Ayesha A. Irani is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston
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* Acknowledgments * A Note on Transliteration and Other Conventions * A Map of Medieval Bengal and Arakan * 1. The Prophet of Light and Love: N r Muhammad in Bengal's Mirror * A Historical Overview of Cä agr ma * Islamic Bangla Literature and Islamization * Literary Portraits of the Author * Inscribing Islam in the Bengali Religious Landscape * N r Muhammad as the Ontological Principle of Light and Love * The Islamic Cosmogony of Om * Later Developments in Islamic Bengali Cosmogonical Discourse * Cosmogony, Translation, and Conversion * 2. Text, Author, and Authority: The Nab vä a and the Making of Islamic Community * Genre and Performance * The Structure of the Nab vä a's Salvation History * The Critical Edition of the Nab vä a vis-à-vis the Manuscript Tradition * Author and Authority in the Making of Islamic Community * 3. Translation and the Historiographic Process: The Work of a Text in the Making of Bengali Islam * The Terms of Translation * Translation as Qur nic Exegesis * The Representation and Transculturation of Musalm ni and Hindu ni Traditions * Translation as Entextualizing Conversion * A Hermeneutic Model of Muslim Missionary Translation * Frontier Literature * 4. A New Prophetology for Bengal: Pur a- Kor n Salvation History * An Indo- Islamic Salvation History for Bengal * The Original Couple, M ric- M rij t or iva- P rvat * The Pur ic Predecessors of dam * The Account of dam, the First Man * Righteous i and Islam's Triumph over Hindu ni Adharma * Evil Iblis as Primal Guru of the Hindu ni Clans * Translation as Renewal, Subversion, and Manipulation * 5. Hari the Fallen Prophet: An Avat ra's Descent into Disgrace * In the Shadow of Gau ya Vai avism * Recasting the Acts of Kr a * The Polemics of the Tale of Kr a * An Islamic Reappraisal of Vai ava Theology * Messianic Intersections of the Avat ra and Nab * Missionary Translation as Creative Iconoclasm * 6. Ascension and Ascendancy: Constructing the Prophet for Bengal * The Nab vä a's Ascension Narrative in the Perso- Turkic Mi r j Tradition * The Prophet as God's Beloved * The Prophet as Perfect Phakir * The Prophet as Intercessor * The Historiographer and Legitimation * Conclusion: Historiography, Translation, and Conversion * Appendix: Distribution of Manuscripts of the NV in Various Bangladeshi Archives * Works Cited * Index
* Acknowledgments * A Note on Transliteration and Other Conventions * A Map of Medieval Bengal and Arakan * 1. The Prophet of Light and Love: N r Muhammad in Bengal's Mirror * A Historical Overview of Cä agr ma * Islamic Bangla Literature and Islamization * Literary Portraits of the Author * Inscribing Islam in the Bengali Religious Landscape * N r Muhammad as the Ontological Principle of Light and Love * The Islamic Cosmogony of Om * Later Developments in Islamic Bengali Cosmogonical Discourse * Cosmogony, Translation, and Conversion * 2. Text, Author, and Authority: The Nab vä a and the Making of Islamic Community * Genre and Performance * The Structure of the Nab vä a's Salvation History * The Critical Edition of the Nab vä a vis-à-vis the Manuscript Tradition * Author and Authority in the Making of Islamic Community * 3. Translation and the Historiographic Process: The Work of a Text in the Making of Bengali Islam * The Terms of Translation * Translation as Qur nic Exegesis * The Representation and Transculturation of Musalm ni and Hindu ni Traditions * Translation as Entextualizing Conversion * A Hermeneutic Model of Muslim Missionary Translation * Frontier Literature * 4. A New Prophetology for Bengal: Pur a- Kor n Salvation History * An Indo- Islamic Salvation History for Bengal * The Original Couple, M ric- M rij t or iva- P rvat * The Pur ic Predecessors of dam * The Account of dam, the First Man * Righteous i and Islam's Triumph over Hindu ni Adharma * Evil Iblis as Primal Guru of the Hindu ni Clans * Translation as Renewal, Subversion, and Manipulation * 5. Hari the Fallen Prophet: An Avat ra's Descent into Disgrace * In the Shadow of Gau ya Vai avism * Recasting the Acts of Kr a * The Polemics of the Tale of Kr a * An Islamic Reappraisal of Vai ava Theology * Messianic Intersections of the Avat ra and Nab * Missionary Translation as Creative Iconoclasm * 6. Ascension and Ascendancy: Constructing the Prophet for Bengal * The Nab vä a's Ascension Narrative in the Perso- Turkic Mi r j Tradition * The Prophet as God's Beloved * The Prophet as Perfect Phakir * The Prophet as Intercessor * The Historiographer and Legitimation * Conclusion: Historiography, Translation, and Conversion * Appendix: Distribution of Manuscripts of the NV in Various Bangladeshi Archives * Works Cited * Index
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