عنوان

The tavern of the manifestation of realities:

شماره

TLpq1447023341

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The tavern of the manifestation of realities:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Hajnalka Kovacs

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

The "Masnavi Muhit-i azam" by Mirza Abd al-Qadir Bedil (1644--1720)

نام ساير پديدآوران

M. Alam

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Chicago

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2013

نام خاص و کميت اثر

273

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

The University of Chicago

امتياز متن

2013

متن يادداشت

My dissertation provides an introduction to the poetry and mystical thought of Mirza Abd al-Qadir Bedil (1644-1720), perhaps the foremost representative of the so-called "Indian style" of Persian poetry, through the study of his first long narrative poem, Muh[dotbelow]it[dotbelow]-i a ́z[dotbelow]am ("The Greatest Ocean," 1667). In this poem, composed in the form of a saqinamah (poem to the cupbearer), Bedil illustrates, with the symbolism of wine, the Unity of Being behind the multiplicity of the phenomena. I discuss the Muh[dotbelow]it[dotbelow]-i a ́z[dotbelow]am from generic, thematic, and stylistic points of view, applying the dual approach of close reading of the poem and intertextuality. I argue that Bedil redefined the bacchanalian saqinamah genre by giving the Muh[dotbelow]it[dotbelow]-i a ́z[dotbelow]am a well-defined structure which is rooted, on the one hand, in traditional Islamic cosmology, and in Ibn al- Arabi's system of metaphysics, on the other. In this context I examine how the conventional elements of the saqinamah genre and stories and discourses of both Islamic and Indic origin are integrated within the conceptual framework of the poem. In particular, I discuss Bedil's adaptation of the tale of King Lavana, a tale that originates in the popular Hindu philosophical work Yogavasisht[dotbelow]ha. I argue that in the Muh[dotbelow]it[dotbelow]-i a ́z[dotbelow]am, in keeping with the emphasis in the saqinamah genre on the transformation of the self, the tale of King Lavan[dotbelow]a serves to underscore not so much the notion that the world is an illusion and a mental construct as the need for purifying the heart so that it can reflect the One Reality. Finally, I show how Bedil deployed the convention of meditations on the art of speech/poetry to address, by way of a unique, poetic approach to Ibn al- Arabi's ontology, the dilemma of the ontological necessity of speech versus the epistemological problem of the ineffability of Reality. The dissertation establishes the Muh[dotbelow]it[dotbelow]-i a ́z[dotbelow]am not only as a unique transformation of the saqinamah genre in the late Mughal period but also a highly original poetic treatment of a synthesis of the theoretical Sufism of Ibn al- Arabi's school and ideas derived from the Indian religious and cultural milieu. With this work I aim to fill one of the many lacunae in Bedil studies, as well as to contribute to the growing literature of the critical reappraisal of the Safavid-Mughal poetry.

موضوع مستند نشده

Bidil, `Abd al-Qadir

موضوع مستند نشده

Language, literature and linguistics

موضوع مستند نشده

Masnavi Muhit-i a`zam

موضوع مستند نشده

Mystical thought

موضوع مستند نشده

Poetry

موضوع مستند نشده

Social sciences

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hajnalka Kovacs

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

M. Alam

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y