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Witness to marvels :

(Number (ISBN

0520306333

(Number (ISBN

0520973682

(Number (ISBN

9780520306332

(Number (ISBN

9780520973688

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9780520306332

Title Proper

Witness to marvels :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Sufism and literary imagination /

First Statement of Responsibility

Tony K. Stewart.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oakland, California :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2019

Date

1911

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Heavenly orchestrations : the world of the legendary pirs of Bengal -- The enchanting lives of the pirs : structures of narrative romance -- Subjunctive explorations : the parodic work of pir kath? -- Mapping the imaginaire : the conditions of possibility -- Manipulating the cosmic hierarchy : a practical act of conceptual blending -- Pragmatics of pir lath? : emplotment and extra-discursive effects -- Epilogue.

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"Witness to Marvels traces the development of a unique genre of Sufi-inspired Bengali romances called pir kathas, whose protagonists and plots are wholly fictive. For five centuries these fabulations have parodied indigenous and Hindu textual traditions. Both mimicking and mocking, these parodies adopted a subjunctive tone, exploring a magical world of 'what-if'. They created an Islam-inflected space within a traditional Bengali cultural environment without trying to legislate what ideally 'should be' according to tropes common to Islamic history, theology, and law. The tales' discursive arena, the imaginaire, delineated the realm of possibility for how these tales might exercise the imagination to integrate Hindu and Islamic cosmologies. Tales insinuated themselves into locally relevant discourses through elaborate intertextual connections, subtly shifting presuppositions about the way the world works and what counts as religious authority. As Allah looked on from heaven, the tales routinely assigned Sufi saints, both pirs and bibis, to the pivotal role of avatar, the periodic descent of divinity, equating them to the Hindu god Narayan. Adopting a semiotic strategy to interpret these tales yields a bold new perspective on the subtle ways Islam assumed its distinctive form in Bengal and suggests how we need to reimagine conversion in this region"--Provided by publisher.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctvrbgdk0

Title

Witness to marvels.

International Standard Book Number

9780520306332

Bengali literature-- Social aspects-- India-- Bengal.

Hinduism-- India-- Bengal.

Islam and literature-- India-- Bengal.

Romance fiction, Bengali.

Sufism-- India-- Bengal.

Asian history.

Bengali literature-- Social aspects.

Hinduism.

Islam and literature.

RELIGION / Islam / History

Religion: general.

Romance fiction, Bengali.

Sufism.

India, Bengal.

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HBJF

HIS-- 017000

HIS-- 037000

HRA

REL-- 037010

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Edition

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Stewart, Tony K.,1954-

Date of Transaction

20200822115141.0

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[Book]

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