Nund Rishi
Poetry and Politics in Medieval Kashmir
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- Author: Abir Bazaz, Ashoka University
- Date Published: June 2024
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009100458
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Nund Rishi (1378–1440) is considered one of the most important Sufi poets from Kashmir. He is revered as the 'flag-bearer of Kashmir' ('Alamdār-e Kashmir), and his poems draw upon the hyperlocal imagery of the Kashmiri literary universe. Despite his popular status as a spiritual successor of Lal Ded, Nund Rishi's poetry has received next to no attention in modern scholarship. This book embodies Abir Bazaz's enduring engagement with the poetic corpus of Nund Rishi. By unpacking the cryptic philosophical and philological riddles in the poems, Bazaz unearths a negative theology in Nund Rishi's mystical poetry. He argues convincingly that the themes of Islam, Death, the Nothing and the Apocalyptic in these poems reveal an existential politics. Bazaz further suggests that the apophatic style of Nund Rishi's poems is in turn mirrored in mystical poetry across South Asia and the larger Indo-Persian world.
Read more- One of the first critical studies of the mystical verse of one of the greatest Sufi saints of Kashmir
- Examines Nund Rishi's poetry in the context of inter-cultural dynamics in medieval Kashmir
- Includes translations from Nund Rishi's mystical poetry
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- Date Published: June 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009100458
- length: 294 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.538kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Sahaja Islam of Nund Rishi
2. Practicing Death
3. Becoming Nothing
4. Vernacular Apocalypse
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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