When Sun Meets Moon: Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry
(Part of the Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469626772
ISBN13:9781469626772
Release Date:June 2016
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:348 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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