Urdu and Indo-Persian Thought, Poetics, and Belles Lettres

Alireza Korangy, Ph.D. (2007), Harvard University, is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Persian Literature (Penn State University Press) and acting president of Societas Philologica Persica. His recent monograph is Development of the Ghazal and Khaqani's Contribution: A Study of the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12th c. Poetic Harbinger (Harrassowitz, 2013). His upcoming monograph is an examination of the literary dimensions of martyrdom in Iran.

• Introduction Acknowledgements Part 1: Indo-Persian1 K̲h̲ushgū’s Dream of Ḥāfiz̤: Authorship, Temporality, and Canonicity in Late Mughal India - Prashant Keshavmurthy2 Notes on ʿAbdul Nabī Fak̲h̲rul Zamānī and Other Indo-Persian Storytellers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Pasha M. Khan3 Ḥāfiz̤ in the Poetry and Philosophy of Muḥammad Iqbāl - Natalia PrigarinaPart 2: Urdu Literary Theory, Urdu Dāstān, Creative Writing, Urdu Philology4 Revisiting that Earth(l)y, Glorious Tradition - Carla Petievich5 Continuing the Tradition: A Commentary on the “Neglected” Verses of G̲h̲ālib - Mehr Afshan Farooqi6 Voyeur Candle, Tattler Candle: The Semiotics of nāyikābheda in G̲h̲ālib’s Urdu Dīvān 39.1 - Satayanarayana Hegde7 Mīr as Suffering Curmudgeon: A Historical Hatchet Job - Frances Pritchett8 “I am a Ruby Wrapped in a Rag”: Zay K̲h̲ay Sheen and the Possibility of Poetry as Autobiography - Gail Minault9 “The Tide and Flow of Islam” Musaddas by Ḥālī as a Poetic Memorial of the Muslim Enlightenment in the Last Third of the Nineteenth Century - Ludmila Vasilyeva10 Jūtē haiṉ jāpānī kaprē inglistānī: Sayyid Ross Masood’s Passage to Japan - David Lelyveld11 From a Slave Garden into Cyberspace: Mirza Athar Baig’s Novels G̲h̲ulām Bāg̲h̲ and Ṣifr Se Ek Tak - Christina Oesterheld12 A Translation of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s Prem Kumar Nazar - Baidar BakhtIndex of Subjects Index of Names

"This excellent volume represents a significant and most welcome contribution to the study of Indo-Persian and Urdu literary traditions, focusing on thematic, linguistic, and translation developments of Indo-Persian and Urdu poetry and prose in both colonial and post colonial periods." - Saeedeh Shahnahpur, Leiden University, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 75/3-4 (2018)