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When Sun Meets Moon - Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry (Hardcover)
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When Sun Meets Moon - Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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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. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as ""Sun,"" was
a Sunni who, after a youthful homosexual love affair, gave up
sexual relationships to follow a path of personal holiness. Mah
Laqa Bai Chanda (1768-1820), known as ""Moon,"" was a Shi'i and
courtesan dancer who transferred her seduction of men to the
pursuit of mystical love. Both were poets in the Urdu language of
the ghazal, or love lyric, often fusing a spiritual quest with
erotic imagery. 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.
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