Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's book discusses the origins and progress of Urdu as a literary language and culture. He analyzes, through examples from dominant literary forms, the origins of both Hindi and Urdu; and evaluates the growth of serious Urdu poetry through studies of all its major forms and practitioners. This is a pioneering work that demolishes myths, proposing instead provocative new theses that all South Asian and Islamic scholars will find riveting.
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Faruqi's study of early Urdu literary culture attempts to re-examine many of the concepts that have usually been misunderstood or taken for granted, and to shed light on a number of hitherto unresolved problems. In this it succeeds admirably. Journal of Islamic Studies A number of crucial topics regarding the development of the language and the moulding of its literary fashions are discussed in a scholarly manner and his most controversial theories are always backed up by enough solid evidence to make them convincing. Journal of Islamic Studies
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Shamsur Rahman Faruqi is at University of Pennsylvania.
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