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Witness to marvels : Sufism and literary imagination /

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"Witness to Marvels traces the development of a unique genre of Sufi-inspired Bengali romances called pir kathas, whose protagonists and plots are wholly fictive. For five centuries these fabulations have parodied indigenous and Hindu textual traditions. Both mimicking and mocking, these parodi...

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Main Author: Stewart, Tony K., 1954- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Bengali literature > Social aspects > India > Bengal.
Romance fiction, Bengali.
Islam and literature > India > Bengal.
Sufism > India > Bengal.
Hinduism > India > Bengal.
Asian history.
Religion: general.
RELIGION / Islam / History.
Bengali literature > Social aspects.
Hinduism.
Islam and literature.
Sufism.
India > Bengal.
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