From Manuscript to Print: Islamic Bangla Literature and the Politics of the Archive

This article takes the Nabivamsa-the first major work of Islamic doctrine to be written in Bangla, in the seventeenth century-as the basis for larger observations about Islamic Bangla literature and its transition from manuscript into print. The article charts three moments in the four centuries of...

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Published in:Religions of South Asia
Main Author: Irani, Ayesha A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2018
In: Religions of South Asia
Year: 2018, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 351-381
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bengali / Islamic literature / Publication / Historiography / History 1666-1800
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B print culture
B Chittagong
B Islamic Bangla manuscripts
B Nationalism
B literary historiography
B Arakan
B Islamic Bangla literature
B Southeast Bengal
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