Ruby in the Dust. Poetry and History in Padmāvat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Muhammad Jāyasī
This book presents an innovative reading of the Indian mystical romance Padmāvat (1540). It describes the semantic polyphony of Jāyasī's seminal work from the perspective of the poet's role in the literary field, as mediator between the interests of his spiritual and worldly patrons. Th...
Main Author: | de Bruijn, Thomas (auth) |
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Format: | eBook |
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Leiden University Press
2012
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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