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The Romance Tradition in Urdu: Adventures from the Dastan of Amir Hamzah

by Frances Pritchett
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780231071642
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
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  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: USD 50.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 558 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asian / General

Like King Arthur in Europe, the Persian hero Amir Hamzah has fought and connived his way through eight centuries of adventure throughout the Islamic world. Here is a new translation of a version of his tale, told in Urdu in India, and set down and first published in 1871. Includes a glossary with pronunciation. No index. Annotation copyright Book N

Pritchett, Frances: - Frances Pritchett (PhD, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Chicago)is Professor Emerita of South Asian Literature and Modern Indic Languages, MESAAS, Columbia University. She is thew author of Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and its Critics (California, 1994), the translator of Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters (Columbia, 2017) and The Romance Tradition in Urdu (Columbia, 1991), and the coeditor of Sources of Indian Traditions: Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (3/e, Columbia, 2014), among other works.

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