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

By Ralph Russell

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several of his essays published in a wide range of periodicals and books over the last thirty years, as well as some unpublished pieces. It contains two kinds of essays: on Urdu and on Islam in South Asia.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195647491
• ISBN13: 9780195647495
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"