The Negative Theology of Nund Rishi (1378-1440): Poetry and Politics in Medieval Kashmir
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Abir Bashir Bazaz
نام ساير پديدآوران
Skaria, Ajay
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of Minnesota
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2016
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
330
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Committee members: McGrath, Jason; Pepper, Thomas Adam; Sawhney, Simona
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-438-56499-2
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
Asian Literature, Culture & Media
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
University of Minnesota
امتياز متن
2016
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Nund Rishi, the founder of a regional Sufi Order called the Rishi Order in early fifteenth century Kashmir, is revered and remembered by most Kashmiris as Alamdār-i Kashmir (the flag-bearer of Kashmir) and also as Shaikh al-'Ālam (the teacher of the worlds). Along with the fourteenth century Shaivite saint-poet, Lal Ded, he is one of the two most significant figures in the history of religion and literature in Kashmir. My dissertation is a detailed study of the mystical poetry of Nund Rishi. It explores the shruks (a form of Kashmiri mystical poetry exemplified by Nund Rishi) not only in its historical and political vicissitudes but also in relation to religious controversies and polemics in medieval Kashmir. Its most distinctive contribution in the process is that it locates Nund Rishi in relation to the traditions of negative theology that were prevalent in Islam and other religions in the region around the time (By 'negative theology,' I mean a discourse on the transcendent which relies on negations rather than affirmations). I examine the thinking of death, nothing, apocalyptic and Islam in Nund Rishi's mystical poetry as a form of negative theology. These also organized his searing critique of the dominant political order in medieval Kashmir. The negative theology of Nund Rishi not only challenged political power in medieval Kashmir but also opened up the political to the demands of the subaltern. I argue that the negative theology of Nund Rishi, and its trajectory in Kashmiri poetry, must not only be read within the terms of religious studies-as one articulation among others of the 'negative path' across regions in the medieval Indo-Persian worlds. It should also be read as a singular and powerful literary discourse on the themes of death, nothing, apocalyptic and Islam; as a literary discourse which approaches the question of the political from the standpoint of an absent God.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Religion; Literature; Persian language; Poetry; Politics; South Asian studies; Teachers; Articulation
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Language, literature and linguistics;Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Death;Kashmir;Negative theology;Poetry;Politics;Sufism
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