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The magic doe : Qut̤ban Suhravardī's Mirigāvatī : a new translation / by Aditya Behl ; edited by Wendy Doniger.

Title
The magic doe : Qut̤ban Suhravardī's Mirigāvatī : a new translation / by Aditya Behl ; edited by Wendy Doniger.
Author
Kutban, active 1493-1503
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Behl, Aditya, 1966-2009.
  • Doniger, Wendy
Description
221 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Composed in 1503 as an introduction to mystical practice for disciples, this powerful Hindavi or early Hindi Sufi romance is a richly layered and sophisticated text, simultaneously a spiritual enigma and an exciting love story full of adventures. The Mirigāvāti is both an excellent introduction to Sufism and one of the true literary classics of pre-modern India, a story that draws freely on the large pool of Indian, Islamic, and European narrative motifs in its distinctive telling of a mystical quest and its resolution.
Uniform Title
  • Mr̥gāvatī. English
  • University press scholarship online.
Alternative Title
Mr̥gāvatī.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Poetry
  • Translations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-221).
Language (note)
  • Translated from Hindi.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780199842926
  • 0199842922
  • 9780199842940
  • 0199842949
LCCN
2011012523
OCLC
  • 711642681
  • SCSB-12343165
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library