Document Type
Article
Department
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
Abstract
How do we comprehend the poetic universe of Muslim South Asia, and why is it important to do so? This is the larger question — at once historical, sociological, literary, and political — which forms the heart of the inquiry in this paper. In my attempt to address this question, I attend particularly to the themes of language, time, love, spiritual subjectivity, key figures, and resistance in understanding the place of the poetic in Muslim tradition. I then offer glimpses of the Seraiki poetic landscape from southern Punjab in Pakistan, to illuminate the continued power and politics of poetic practice in present-day Muslim lifeworlds.
Publication (Name of Journal)
Journal of Narrative Politics
Recommended Citation
Ali, N. (2016). From Hallaj to Heer: Poetic knowledge and the Muslim tradition. Journal of Narrative Politics, 3(1), 2–26.
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Comments
This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University.