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When Sun Meets Moon: Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry - Couverture souple

Livre 20 sur 29: Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks

Kugle, Scott

 
9781469626772: When Sun Meets Moon: Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1469626772 ISBN 13 : 9781469626772
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

Synopsis

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as "Sun," was a Sunni who, after a youthful homosexual love affair, gave up sexual relationships to follow a path of personal holiness. Mah Laqa Bai Chanda (1768-1820), known as "Moon," was a Shi'i and courtesan dancer who transferred her seduction of men to the pursuit of mystical love. Both were poets in the Urdu language of the ghazal, or love lyric, often fusing a spiritual quest with erotic imagery.

Kugle argues that Sun and Moon expressed through their poetry exceptions to the general rules of heteronormativity and gender inequality common in their patriarchal societies. Their art provides a lens for a more subtle understanding of both the reach and the limitations of gender roles in Islamic and South Asian culture and underscores how the arts of poetry, music, and dance are integral to Islamic religious life. Integrated throughout are Kugle's translations of Urdu and Persian poetry previously unavailable in English.

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À propos de l'auteur

Scott A. Kugle, associate professor of South Asian and Islamic studies at Emory University, is the author of Sufis and Saints' Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality, and Sacred Power in Islam.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469626772
ISBN 13 
9781469626772
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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