Wajihuddin Ashraf. Bahr-e-Zakhkhār. 3 vols. Ed. Azarmi Dukht Safavi. Aligarh, 2012.
Subject
Kangal-er Gaan [Penniless Songs]
Description
This “song” is based on a prose narrative in Bahr-e-Zakhkhār, the Persian biography of Indian saints and mystics produced by Wajihuddin Ashraf in 1788-89. The Sufis described in this biography, from which a short excerpt has been selected, not only had their own discourse of dearth and ascetic practice, they also directly intervened, often through prayer, miraculous powers of fasting, and charitable acts, or by reinterpreting religious injunctions on food, during times of dearth, famine, and pestilence.
Publisher
University of Exeter
Date
2021-03
Contributor
Dutta, Shrutakirti
Mondal, Sujit
Mukherjee, Ayesha
Rights
CC BY-NC
Language
English
Farsi
Coverage
c. 1788-89