عنوان

Worlds of Advice

شماره

LA119459

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Worlds of Advice

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Soofia Siddique

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This article situates the nineteenth-century Urdu writer Nazir Ahmad's Chand Pand as a piece of advice literature on an Arabic-Persian continuum, and equally a text of its time and place. Linguistic features of its discourse show that, as a self-conscious performance of the possibilities of Urdu, it imparts culturally resonant ways of inhabiting a multifarious world, and inscribes an expansive and inclusive view of culture. In particular, the narrative organization of the focal section "A Brief Account of the World" is strongly evocative of a conceptual organization of the world by concentric circles that is comparable to the view of human sociality invoked by the tenth-eleventh century Persian ethicist Miskawayh and illuminates the location of Nazir Ahmad's text in the continuum of ethics (akhlaq) literature. At the same time, beside these signs of literary cosmopolitanism, I argue that Nazir Ahmad's account of the world stakes a claim for the irreducible particularity of places and their associated textures of life, and offers a view of the world that supports "place-based thinking or imagination" (Dirlik) as opposed to the potentially obfuscating abstraction of globalized "space." This article situates the nineteenth-century Urdu writer Nazir Ahmad's Chand Pand as a piece of advice literature on an Arabic-Persian continuum, and equally a text of its time and place. Linguistic features of its discourse show that, as a self-conscious performance of the possibilities of Urdu, it imparts culturally resonant ways of inhabiting a multifarious world, and inscribes an expansive and inclusive view of culture. In particular, the narrative organization of the focal section "A Brief Account of the World" is strongly evocative of a conceptual organization of the world by concentric circles that is comparable to the view of human sociality invoked by the tenth-eleventh century Persian ethicist Miskawayh and illuminates the location of Nazir Ahmad's text in the continuum of ethics (akhlaq) literature. At the same time, beside these signs of literary cosmopolitanism, I argue that Nazir Ahmad's account of the world stakes a claim for the irreducible particularity of places and their associated textures of life, and offers a view of the world that supports "place-based thinking or imagination" (Dirlik) as opposed to the potentially obfuscating abstraction of globalized "space."

تاريخ نشر

2019

توصيف ظاهري

169-187

عنوان

Journal of World Literature

شماره جلد

4/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2405-6480

اصطلاح موضوعی

Advice Literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

akhlaq

اصطلاح موضوعی

multilingual

اصطلاح موضوعی

place

اصطلاح موضوعی

textbook

اصطلاح موضوعی

the nineteenth century

اصطلاح موضوعی

Urdu

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Soofia Siddique

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/24056480-00402003

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y