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The Magic Doe - Qutban Suhravardi's Mirigavati (Hardcover)
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The Magic Doe - Qutban Suhravardi's Mirigavati (Hardcover)
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Mirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban
Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and
storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan
Husain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur. Composed in 1503 as an introduction
to mystical practice for disciples, this powerful Hindavi or early
Hindi Sufi romance is a richly layered and sophisticated text,
simultaneously a spiritual enigma and an exciting love-story full
of adventures. The Mirigavati is both an excellent introduction to
Sufism and one of the true literary classics of pre-modern India, a
story that draws freely on the large pool of Indian, Islamic, and
European narrative motifs in its distinctive telling of a mystical
quest and its resolution. Adventures from the Odyssey and the
voyages of Sindbad the Sailor-sea voyages, encounters with
monstrous serpents, damsels in distress, flying demons and
cannibals in caves, among others-surface in Suhravardi's rollicking
tale, marking it as first-rate entertainment for its time and, in
private sessions in Sufi shrines, a narrative that shaped the
interior journey for novices. Before his untimely death in 2009,
Aditya Behl had completed this complete blank verse translation of
the critical edition of the Mirigavati, which reveals the precise
mechanism and workings of spiritual signification and use in a
major tradition of world and Indian literature.
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