When Sun Meets Moon: Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry

by Scott Kugle

Book Overview

The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Shah Siraj Awrangabadi (1715-1763), known as "Sun," was a Sunni who, after a youthful homosexual love affair, gave...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469626772
• ISBN13: 9781469626772
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"