Download or read book Grieving Shias written by Raza Ali Hasan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American English his adopted language, at home in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Syracuse, N.Y., Raza Ali Hasan deals with material unavailable to any other poet I know writing in English. Without rank, without comrades, he has fought battles of the mind and spirit. The reader may hear music he does not recognize; perhaps it is of the subcontinent. The architecture is American fusion, Mughal, postcolonial, colonial, sometimes peasant, sometimes Syracuse motel. Ali Hasan does not play cricket; his often painfully beautiful poems do not play fair."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book Non Shia Practices of Mu arram in South Asia and the Diaspora written by Pushkar Sohoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses engagements with non-Shia practices of Muḥarram celebrations in the past and present, in South Asia and within a larger diaspora. Breaking new ground by bringing together a variety of regional perspectives (the Deccan, the Punjab, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago) and linguistic backgrounds (Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu), the chapters discuss the importance of Muḥarram celebrations in terms of their respective actors. While in some cases these include an interrelationship with Shia Muslims and their traditions of mourning during Muḥarram, other contributions address contexts in which Shias, and even Muslims, form only a minor component of the celebrations, or even none at all. Focusing on Muḥarram celebrations that are beyond the script provided by Shia Muḥarram practices, this book opens up new perspectives on Muḥarram as a social practice widely shared by South Asians across regions. The book will be a key resource to scholars and students of South Asian studies, Asian religion, in particular rituals and religious practices, and Islamic studies but also engaging to non-academic readers interested in the practices of several regions.
Download or read book Mad Heart Be Brave written by Kazim Ali and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays, both personal and critical, on the work of beloved Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali
Download or read book In Pursuit of Probity written by Devinder Singh Bagga and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Honesty is your biggest strength and Dignity your strongest defence.” Those are the simple yet profound words of an IAS officer who, from a humble background, rose to the highest echelons of the Government of India with a relentless focus on establishing the highest standards of ethical governance and moral rectitude. Devinder Singh Bagga was a man who believed that the administrative service is a tapasya—a self-effacing occupation to serve the masses. In his memoirs spanning thirty-seven years, he endeavours to narrate an administrator’s struggle to exercise administrative rectitude and probity while he navigated choppy waters with no patronage or protection. He held coveted positions in the Indian bureaucracy, including that of the Deputy Election Commissioner of India under the iconic T. N. Seshan, an era that transformed the Election Commission of India into a no-nonsense autonomous constitutional body. He eventually retired after becoming the Chief Secretary of India’s most challenging state—Uttar Pradesh. The author brings to life his experience of the “steel frame of India” and helps us get a deeper understanding of the various subjects that may yet be shrouded in conjecture and not fully understood by the layperson. Through this light-hearted, yet thoroughly insightful, account of his remarkable journey, the author conveys his views on what it takes to deliver exceptional administrative governance with objectivity and integrity while refusing to be drawn into contentious distractions “A very informative and interesting read from a man who fondly imagined in his ambitious moments that probity and determination are measuring instruments whose Zero Error is Zero.” – Kavita Bagga (a daughter’s fond remembrance)
Download or read book A Broken Thing written by Emily Rosko and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is the line? Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee’s anthology gives seventy original answers that lead us deeper into the world of poetry, but also far out into the world at large: its people, its politics, its ecology. The authors included here, emerging and established alike, write from a range of perspectives, in terms of both aesthetics and identity. Together, they offer a dynamic hybrid collection that captures a broad spectrum of poetic practice in the twenty-first century. Rosko and Vander Zee’s introduction offers a generous overview of conversations about the line from the Romantics forward. We come to see how the line might be an engine for ideals of progress—political, ethical, or otherwise. For some poets, the line touches upon the most fundamental questions of knowledge and existence. More than ever, the line is the radical against which even alternate and emerging poetic forms that foreground the visual or the auditory, the page or the screen, can be distinguished and understood. From the start, a singular lesson emerges: lines do not form meaning solely in their brevity or their length, in their becoming or their brokenness; lines live in and through the descriptions we give them. Indeed, the history of American poetry in the twentieth century could be told by the compounding, and often confounding, discussions of its lines. A Broken Thing both reflects upon and extends this history, charting a rich diffusion of theory and practice into the twenty-first century with the most diverse, wide-ranging and engaging set of essays to date on the line in poetry, revealing how poems work and why poetry continues to matter.
Download or read book Among The Believers written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naipaul’s controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world, hailed by The New Republic as “the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time.”
Download or read book 67 Mogul Miniatures written by Raza Ali Hasan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great contentious pressures create these gem-like miniatures: East and West, rich and poor, fisc and spirit, landmines and butterflies, indictment and song. They take their hexagonal shape in a landscape that spans from Gilgamesh to Karachi. Over the humbled landscape flies the paper kite of the great Urdu poet, Muhammad Iqbal, as Raza Ali Hasan channels the high-flying intentions and grounded tensions of his mentor. The poems are solemn and funny, a call to prayer and a call to arms. They are smart, scathing, and demand to be read with attention and concern. - Bruce Smith.
Download or read book The Sunset Club written by Khushwant Singh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the members of the Sunset Club: Pandit Preetam Sharma, Nawab Barkatullah Baig and Sardar Boota Singh. Friends for over forty years, they are now in their eighties. And every evening, at the sunset hour, they sit together on a bench in Lodhi Gardens to exchange news and views on the events of the day, talking about everything from love, lust, sex and scandal to religion and politics. As he follows a year in the lives of the three men from January 26 2009 to January 26 2010. Khushwant Singh brings his characters vibrantly to life, with his piquant portrayals of their fantasies and foibles, his unerring ear for dialogue and his genius for capturing the flavour and texture of everyday life in their households. Interwoven with this compelling human story is another chronicle of a year in the life of India, as the country goes through the cycle of seasons, the tumult of general elections, violence, natural disasters and corruption in high places. In turn ribald and lyrical, poignant and profound, The Sunset Club is a deeply moving exploration of friendship, sexuality, old age and infirmity; a joyous celebration of nature; an insightful portrait of India's paradoxes and complexities. A masterpiece from one of India's most-loved storytellers, The Sunset Club will have you in tears and laughter, and grip you from the first page to the last
Download or read book Partners of Zaynab written by Diane D’Souza and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives? How do their experiences and beliefs differ from or overlap with those of men? What do gender-based religious roles and interactions reveal about the Shia Muslim faith? In Partners of Zaynab, Diane D'Souza presents a rich ethnography of urban Shia women in India, exploring women's devotional lives through the lens of religious narrative, sacred space, ritual performance, leadership, and iconic symbols. Religious scholars have tended to devalue women's religious expressions, confining them to the periphery of a male-centered ritual world. This viewpoint often assumes that women's ritual behaviors are the unsophisticated product of limited education and experience and even a less developed female nature. By illuminating vibrant female narratives within Shia religious teachings, the fascinating history of a shrine led by women, the contemporary lives of dynamic female preachers, and women's popular prayers and rituals of petition, Partners of Zaynab demonstrates that the religious lives of women are not a flawed approximation of male-defined norms and behaviors, but a vigorous, authentic affirmation of faith within the religious mainstream. D'Souza questions the distinction between normative and popular religious behavior, arguing that such a categorization not only isolates and devalues female ritual expressions, but also weakens our understanding of religion as a whole. Partners of Zaynab offers a compelling glimpse of Muslim faith and practice and a more complete understanding of the interplay of gender within Shia Islam.
Download or read book Book of Iran Religious Mourning Ceremonies in Iran written by Muḥammad Ṣādiq Farbud and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India written by Kalyani Devaki Menon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India looks at how religion provides an arena to make place and challenge the majoritarian, exclusionary, and introverted tendencies of contemporary India. Places do not simply exist. They are made and remade by the acts of individuals and communities at particular historical moments. In India today, the place for Muslims is shrinking as the revanchist Hindu Right increasingly realizes its vision of a Hindu nation. Religion enables Muslims to re-envision India as a different kind of place, one to which they unquestionably belong. Analyzing the religious narratives, practices, and constructions of religious subjectivity of diverse groups of Muslims in Old Delhi, Kalyani Devaki Menon reveals the ways in which Muslims variously contest the insular and singular understandings of nation that dominate the sociopolitical landscape of the country and make place for themselves. Menon shows how religion is concerned not just with the divine and transcendental but also with the anxieties and aspirations of people living amid violence, exclusion, and differential citizenship. Ultimately, Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India allows us to understand religious acts, narratives, and constructions of self and belonging as material forces, as forms of the political that can make room for individuals, communities, and alternative imaginings in a world besieged by increasingly xenophobic understandings of nation and place.
Download or read book Your Questions Answered volume II written by Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi and published by Bilal Muslim Mission of Tanzania. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crying Shame written by James M. Wilce and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent. Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context Draws on the author’s extensive ethnographic fieldwork, and unique long-term engagement and participation in the phenomenon Offers a startling new perspective on the nature of modernity and postmodernity An important addition to growing literature on cultural globalization
Download or read book Psychoanalytic and Socio Cultural Perspectives on Women in India written by Paula Ellman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today. Women’s well-being and security has often depended upon their gender positioning while other binaries like rural-urban, class, and caste have also played a crucial role globally and especially in India. Historically, women have been subjected to various forms of oppression that include sex selective abortions, domestic violence, bride burning for dowry, and acid attacks. Threats to women’s security have recently increased with progressive polarization and hardening of socio-political and cultural ideologies. This book assesses how women’s lives are impacted by these social and cultural conventions and stigma, including ideas around motherhood, religion, intimacy and femininity itself, and the psychological implications these have. Topics include the seduction of religion, motherhood in contemporary times, intimacy and violence, and fundamentalist states of mind in the clinical space. While the book echoes a regional specificity, it simultaneously resonates a backdrop of global change of affairs that has its impact on ideological freedom and the concept of inclusivity in terms of gender, race, culture, and politics across the world. For this comprehensive perspective, the effort is to create a platform of authors comprising psychoanalysts, social scientists, scholars from the liberal arts discipline, as well as social activists. In a country where women have been historically subjected to both psychological and physical oppression, this timely and original book will interest a range of scholars interested in gender, mental health and contemporary Indian society, as well as clinicians in the field.
Download or read book Among the Believers written by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author focuses on the role of religion, as he sees it, in affecting the creative and intellectual resources needed by nations to develop on their own. The author describes a six-month journey across the Asian continent. V.S. Naipaul explores the culture and the explosive situation in countries where Islamic fundamentalism was growing. His travels start with Iran, on to Pakistan, Malaysia and end in Indonesia, with a short stop in Pakistan and Iran on the return to the UK. (Book content).
Download or read book Apocalyptic Realm written by Dilip Hiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the rise of the jihadist movement from its initial violence in Afghanistan in 1980 to now and presents a history of Islamist terrorism in South Asia, revealing the causes of today's escalating terrorist threat.
Download or read book Urdu Poetry Epistemology Volume II written by Sayed Athar Husain Naqvi and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urdu Poetry & Epistemology – Volume II celebrates the enduring beauty and depth of Urdu literature, captivating the heart of the reader. This work pays homage to the divine craftsmanship of words and poetry, showcasing how Urdu continues to carve new paths into the future, resonating with souls far and wide. The writings of the esteemed Sayed Athar Husain Naqvi serve as a testament to Urdu’s rich heritage, compelling readers to acknowledge the language’s origins and its poignant journey through time. Although it is often mourned for its perceived decline in its birthplace, Urdu finds a vibrant resurgence amidst its trials. Drawing inspiration from the historical currents of the Euphrates, it finds a new home among the diaspora in Europe, flourishing particularly on the fertile cultural grounds of London. In this new era, Rajab Ali Beg Saroor breathes life into Urdu with his pen. His work, infused with innovation and wonder, creates a mesmerizing universe of words, where magic and reality blend seamlessly, offering a testament to the language’s adaptability and enduring charm. London, celebrated as a melting pot of cultures, plays a crucial role in embracing Urdu and other languages, providing them with a platform to thrive and enchant anew. This book is not only a tribute to Urdu poetry’s illustrious past but also a beacon of hope for its flourishing future, inviting readers to delve into its harmonious and enchanting world.
