Ruby in the Dust. Poetry and History in Padmāvat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Muhammad Jāyasī

• Main Author: de Bruijn, Thomas (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden University Press 2012
• Subjects: Literary studies: poetry & poets; india; language and linguistics; poetry; God; Mysticism; Padmavati (Jainism); Ratnasimha; Stanza; Sufism; Yogi
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book presents an innovative reading of the Indian mystical romance Padmāvat (1540). It describes the semantic polyphony of Jāyasī's seminal work from the perspective of the poet's role in the literary field, as mediator between the interests of his spiritual and worldly patrons. The c...