How Not to Write the History of Urdu Literature And Other Essays on Urdu and Islam

Name: How Not to Write the History of Urdu Literature And Other Essays on Urdu and Islam
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ISBN: 9780195647495

ISBN-10: 0195647491

ISBN-13: 9780195647495

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ralph Russell

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Ralph Russell is one of the foremost western scholars of Urdu literature. This volume brings together several of his essays published in a wide range of periodicals and books over the last thirty years, as well as some unpublished pieces. The essays deal both with Urdu and with Islam in South Asia. The collection will appeal to anyone interested in Urdu and its evolving destiny on the Indian subcontinent.

Book details

List price: $26.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/9/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Ralph Russell is Formerly a Reader in Urdu, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London




Ralph Russell: Teacher, Scholar, Lover of Urdu




How Not to Write the History of Urdu Literature



Aijaz Ahmed and Ghalib



The Urdu Ghazal: A Rejoinder to Frances W. Pritchett William L. Hanaway



Leadership in the All-India Progressive Writers' Movement, 1935-1947



Urdu in Independent India: History and Prospects



Aziz Ahmad, South Asia, Islam and Urdu



Some Notes on Hindi and Urdu



Islam in a Pakistan Village: Some Impressions



A Day in a Pakistani Village



A Day in Jhelum, Pakistan



Meeting a Pir's Disciple



Strands of Muslim Identity in South Asia



The Concept of Islam in Urdu Poetry



Salman Rushdie, Islam and Multiculturalism



Maududi and Islamic Obscurantism



Inter-faith Dialogue - and Other Matters



An Infidel Among Believers