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Author Kugle, Scott Alan, 1969- author.

Title When sun meets moon : gender, eros, and ecstasy in Urdu poetry / Scott Kugle.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Celestial bodies seen from Deccan soil -- Siraj's bewilderment -- Siraj's silence -- Eros and spirit -- Poetry as music -- Transit: when Sufis meet Shi'is -- Mah Laqa Bai's radiance -- Mah Laqa Bai's men -- Mah Laqa Bai's shame -- The performance of gender -- Mah Laqa Bai's true love -- Conjunction: when sun meets moon.
Summary "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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Sirāj Aurangābādī, 1712-1763 -- Criticism and interpretation.
سراج اورنگابادى،, 1712-1763 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sirāj Aurangābādī, 1712-1763.
Criticism and interpretation.
Māh-i Liqā, 1768- -- Criticism and interpretation.
ماه لقا،, 1768- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Māh-i Liqā, 1768-
Urdu poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Urdu poetry.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Urdu poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Love in literature.
Love in literature.
Ecstasy in literature.
Ecstasy in literature.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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