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Love's Subtle Magic - An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545 (Paperback)
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Love's Subtle Magic - An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545 (Paperback)
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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining
issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th
century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of
Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power
eventually reduced to vassalage almost every independent kingdom on
the subcontinent. In Love's Subtle Magic, a remarkable and highly
original book, Aditya Behl uses a little-understood genre of Sufi
literature to paint an entirely new picture of the evolution of
Indian culture during the earliest period of Muslim domination.
These curious romantic tales transmit a profound religious message
through the medium of adventurous stories of love. Although
composed in the Muslim courts, they are written in a vernacular
Indian language and involve Hindu yogis, Hindu princes and
princesses, and Hindu gods. Until now, they have defied analysis.
Behl shows that the Sufi authors of these charming tales sought to
convey an Islamic vision via an Indian idiom. They thus constitute
the earliest attempt at the indigenization of Islamic literature in
an Indian setting. More important, however, Behl's analysis
brilliantly illuminates the cosmopolitan and composite culture of
the Sultanate India in which they were composed. This in turn
compels us completely to rethink the standard of the opposition
between Indian Hindu and foreign Muslim and recognize that the
Indo-Islamic culture of this era was already significantly Indian
in many important ways.
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