Title in ENGLISH : This book explores a corpus of texts that centre around the creation of the world by God through his prophet Muhammad in his primordial form as a luminous entity. In addition to introductory chapters on Muslim literacy in eastern Bengal and the treatment of light in scholastic and non-scholastic Muslim literature, This book contains the text and annotated translations of several Persian and Bengali versions of the Nurnama, written between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. A close study of this tradition in eastern Bengal demonstrates the rural literatis engagement with Persian and Arabic languages and literacy. Beyond the domain of Bengali language and literature, the book opens a new chapter of Indo-Persian studies by shedding light on the didactic and ritual uses of Persian texts in rural Bengal.;

ISBN 13: 9789355723369

ISBN 10: 9355723369

Edition: Delhi

Year: 2022

Language: ENGLISH

Subject(s): Religion, Literature