The Transcultural Eros of the Manchester Cāndāyana
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Published:2022-08-01
Issue:2
Volume:42
Page:293-308
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ISSN:1089-201X
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Container-title:Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
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language:en
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Author:
Aitken Molly Emma,Busch Allison
Abstract
Abstract
This essay explores a single illustrated manuscript of Maulana Daud's Sufi narrative the Cāndāyana from the Rylands Library, Manchester, to help make sense of how Sufi poets and the sultanate-period painters who illustrated their verses realized the indigenous aesthetics of eros and the nāyikā.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Development,Geography, Planning and Development
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