Christopher Shackle
Biographic Data
| ID | 577728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Shackle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Shackle |
| SIGNATURE | SHACKLE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Risalo of Shah Abdul Latif: Sufi Poetry from Sindh
Risalo of Shah Abdul Latif: Sufi Poetry from Sindh
Keynote Address
Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity
Debating the Dasam Granth
Capitalism and Christianity, American style
William E. Connolly, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2008, xvi +174 pp., US$21.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8223-4272-4 Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopk
Ghazal as World Literature I: Transformations of a Literary Genre * by Thomas Bauer and Angelika Neuwirth
Journal Article Ghazal as World Literature I: Transformations of a Literary GenreBy Thomas Bauer and Angelika Neuwirth Get access Ghazal as World Literature I: Transformations of a Literary GenreBy Thomas Bauer and Angelika Neuwirth (Beirut: Ergon Verlang, 2005), 447 pp. Price €54.00. ISBN 3-89913-406-0. Christopher Shackle Christopher Shackle School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Repackaging the ineffable: Changing styles of Sikh scriptural commentary
The special importance of the Ādi Granth as the defining scripture of the Sikhs has encouraged the production of commentaries whose language and approach reflect changing understandings of the Gurus' teachings over the last four centuries. The oral style of the earlier commentaries which typically demonstrate a catholic inclusiveness towards the wider Indic tradition came largely to be replaced in the twentieth century by the more exclusive appro…
The Story of Sayf al-Mulūk in South Asia
Seyf-el-Mulook answered him, May God (whose name be exalted!) make it [thy country] ever to be honoured by thy rule, O King! And the King Faghfoor Shah said, Nought hath brought thee hither save some affair that hath occurred to thee; and whatever thing thou desirest to obtain from my country, I will accomplish it for thee. Most English readers may not remember the story these lines from Edward Lane's translation relate to, but the sub-Biblical l…
ʿAṭṭār and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight
Four generations of Sikh studies: A personal view
This perspective on the development of Sikh Studies over the twentieth century intersperses personal reminiscences from the past four decades with a chronological overview of the modern development of the subject. Beginning with an outline of some of the pioneering achievements of the great Singh Sabha scholars and of subsequent developments in the Punjab in the succeeding generations, it then discusses some of the tensions between traditional sc…
Gurinder Singh Mann: The Goindval Pothis: the earliest extant source of the Sikh canon. xiv, 219pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 1996. $35
Gurinder Singh Mann: The Goindval Pothis: the earliest extant source of the Sikh canon. xiv, 219pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 1996. $35. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa: 2. Eulogy's Bounty, Meaning's Abundance. An Anthology
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525).
Settings of Panegyric: The Secular Qasida in Mughal and British India
Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa: 1. Classical Traditions & Modern Meanings
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525)
Between Scripture and Romance: The YUSuf-Zulaikha Story in Panjabi
The Indian Narrative: Perspectives and Patterns
Hindi and Urdu since 1800: A Common Reader
This study of the history and development of modern Hindi and Urdu looks at the composite ancestry of these sister languages in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit and English. The main section of the book consists of a series of sample passages in Urdu and Hindi; each passage represents a stage in the development of the language and has some aspect of language itself as its primary focus. The book is now out of print, and the Hindi Urdu Flagship is glad t…
Books
London Against Racism in Housing, Anti‐Racism for the Private Rented Sector, London: London Against Racism in Housing, 1988, 122 pp., n.p. Marc Reuver, Christians as Peacemakers, Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1988, 84 pp., £3.75 p.b. Robin Boyd, Ireland: Christianity Discredited or Pilgrim's Progress, Geneva: WWC Publications, 1988, 127 pp., £4.75 p.b. Máirtin Mac an Ghaill, Young, Gifted and Black: Student‐Teacher Relations in the Schooling…
An Introduction to the Sacred Language of the Sikhs
The Sikhs before and after Indian independence
The non-Sanskritic vocabulary of the later Sikh gurūs
Althouth the Ādi Granth (AG) is rightly renowned for the number and the variety of its contributors, the great bulk of its contents is in fact formed by the compositions of Gurū Nānak (d. 1539), and those of his successors Gurū Amar Dās (d. 1574), Gurū Rām Dās (d. 1581), and Gurū Arjan (d. 1606
Hindko in Kohat and Peshawar
The Indo-Iranian linguistic frontier constitutes one of the most complex and interesting language-areas of the sub-continent. Given the nature of the area, it is perhaps inevitable that scholarly attention should have been directed particularly to its remoter corners, where so much that is of historical importance has been preserved, and we certainly have every reason to be grateful for the fascination which such out of the way survivals have hel…
The Multani marsiya
Catalogue of the Panjabi and Sindhi Manuscripts in the India Office Library
Siraiki: A Language Movement in Pakistan
It may be asserted with some assurance that the very name 'Siraiki' will be quite unfamiliar to most readers of this article. The well-known predilection of most South Asianists for working from English sources and their concentration upon the larger Indian scene, where such sources are so much more abundant than for Pakistan, may contribute to this unfamiliarity; but it is doubtless due principally to the quite recent introduction of the term on…
Punjabi in Lahore
Under the terms of a Fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, the author was given study-leave for the academic year 1967-68 to go to Pakistan and India in order to improve his knowledge of Urdu and Punjabi. Having chosen Lahore as the most suitable place to pursue the concurrent study of these two languages, he lived there from September 1967 until April 1968, during which time he became increasingly consci…
Hindi and Urdu since 1800: A Common Reader
This study of the history and development of modern Hindi and Urdu looks at the composite ancestry of these sister languages in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit and English. The main section of the book consists of a series of sample passages in Urdu and Hindi; each passage represents a stage in the development of the language and has some aspect of language itself as its primary focus. The book is now out of print, and the Hindi Urdu Flagship is glad t…
Approaches to the Persian loans in the Ādi Granth
One of the chief fascinations exercised by words-especially by loan-words-derives from their dual function as markers of both linguistic and cultural change. For those interested in words from this historical view-point perhaps nothing is more tantalizing than the difficulty of reproducing, in the study of words as cultural markers, those types of clear and comprehensive classification which have been so successfully developed for the analysis of…
South-Western' elements in the language of the Ādi Granth
The considerable size of the Ādi Granth, the varied authorship of its contents, and their arrangement within the volume to suit the requirements of liturgical performance rather than those of scholarly perusal, all these may be accounted factors to be held responsible for delaying, until quite recently, its critical analysis. Certainly the delay was not warranted by the intrinsic importance of the Ādi Granth (AG), which derives primarily from its…
The Sikhs before and after Indian independence
The Sahaskritī poetic idiom in the Ādi Granth
In two previous studies we have sought to advance the process of understanding the complex linguistic character of the Āḍi Granth (AG) by isolating and describing two special stylistic varieties of language, which significantly differ from the normal idiom of the book as a whole. These were shown to be based respectively on the extensive use of elements drawn from the dialects of the South-Western Panjab, and of loan-items from Persian: but it wa…
The Story of Sayf al-Mulūk in South Asia
Seyf-el-Mulook answered him, May God (whose name be exalted!) make it [thy country] ever to be honoured by thy rule, O King! And the King Faghfoor Shah said, Nought hath brought thee hither save some affair that hath occurred to thee; and whatever thing thou desirest to obtain from my country, I will accomplish it for thee. Most English readers may not remember the story these lines from Edward Lane's translation relate to, but the sub-Biblical l…
Hindko in Kohat and Peshawar
The Indo-Iranian linguistic frontier constitutes one of the most complex and interesting language-areas of the sub-continent. Given the nature of the area, it is perhaps inevitable that scholarly attention should have been directed particularly to its remoter corners, where so much that is of historical importance has been preserved, and we certainly have every reason to be grateful for the fascination which such out of the way survivals have hel…
The Multani marsiya
Punjabi in Lahore
Under the terms of a Fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, the author was given study-leave for the academic year 1967-68 to go to Pakistan and India in order to improve his knowledge of Urdu and Punjabi. Having chosen Lahore as the most suitable place to pursue the concurrent study of these two languages, he lived there from September 1967 until April 1968, during which time he became increasingly consci…
An Anthology of Classical Urdu Love Lyrics. Text and Translations
Siraiki: A Language Movement in Pakistan
It may be asserted with some assurance that the very name 'Siraiki' will be quite unfamiliar to most readers of this article. The well-known predilection of most South Asianists for working from English sources and their concentration upon the larger Indian scene, where such sources are so much more abundant than for Pakistan, may contribute to this unfamiliarity; but it is doubtless due principally to the quite recent introduction of the term on…
South-Western' elements in the language of the Ādi Granth
The considerable size of the Ādi Granth, the varied authorship of its contents, and their arrangement within the volume to suit the requirements of liturgical performance rather than those of scholarly perusal, all these may be accounted factors to be held responsible for delaying, until quite recently, its critical analysis. Certainly the delay was not warranted by the intrinsic importance of the Ādi Granth (AG), which derives primarily from its…
The Multani marsiya
Catalogue of the Panjabi and Sindhi Manuscripts in the India Office Library
The Sahaskritī poetic idiom in the Ādi Granth
In two previous studies we have sought to advance the process of understanding the complex linguistic character of the Āḍi Granth (AG) by isolating and describing two special stylistic varieties of language, which significantly differ from the normal idiom of the book as a whole. These were shown to be based respectively on the extensive use of elements drawn from the dialects of the South-Western Panjab, and of loan-items from Persian: but it wa…
Approaches to the Persian loans in the Ādi Granth
One of the chief fascinations exercised by words-especially by loan-words-derives from their dual function as markers of both linguistic and cultural change. For those interested in words from this historical view-point perhaps nothing is more tantalizing than the difficulty of reproducing, in the study of words as cultural markers, those types of clear and comprehensive classification which have been so successfully developed for the analysis of…
Hindko in Kohat and Peshawar
The Indo-Iranian linguistic frontier constitutes one of the most complex and interesting language-areas of the sub-continent. Given the nature of the area, it is perhaps inevitable that scholarly attention should have been directed particularly to its remoter corners, where so much that is of historical importance has been preserved, and we certainly have every reason to be grateful for the fascination which such out of the way survivals have hel…
The non-Sanskritic vocabulary of the later Sikh gurūs
Althouth the Ādi Granth (AG) is rightly renowned for the number and the variety of its contributors, the great bulk of its contents is in fact formed by the compositions of Gurū Nānak (d. 1539), and those of his successors Gurū Amar Dās (d. 1574), Gurū Rām Dās (d. 1581), and Gurū Arjan (d. 1606
An Introduction to the Sacred Language of the Sikhs
The Sikhs before and after Indian independence
Books
London Against Racism in Housing, Anti‐Racism for the Private Rented Sector, London: London Against Racism in Housing, 1988, 122 pp., n.p. Marc Reuver, Christians as Peacemakers, Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1988, 84 pp., £3.75 p.b. Robin Boyd, Ireland: Christianity Discredited or Pilgrim's Progress, Geneva: WWC Publications, 1988, 127 pp., £4.75 p.b. Máirtin Mac an Ghaill, Young, Gifted and Black: Student‐Teacher Relations in the Schooling…
Hindi and Urdu since 1800: A Common Reader
This study of the history and development of modern Hindi and Urdu looks at the composite ancestry of these sister languages in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit and English. The main section of the book consists of a series of sample passages in Urdu and Hindi; each passage represents a stage in the development of the language and has some aspect of language itself as its primary focus. The book is now out of print, and the Hindi Urdu Flagship is glad t…
Between Scripture and Romance: The YUSuf-Zulaikha Story in Panjabi
The Indian Narrative: Perspectives and Patterns
Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa: 2. Eulogy's Bounty, Meaning's Abundance. An Anthology
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525).
Settings of Panegyric: The Secular Qasida in Mughal and British India
Qasida Poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa: 1. Classical Traditions & Modern Meanings
The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004104525)
Gurinder Singh Mann: The Goindval Pothis: the earliest extant source of the Sikh canon. xiv, 219pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 1996. $35
Gurinder Singh Mann: The Goindval Pothis: the earliest extant source of the Sikh canon. xiv, 219pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 1996. $35. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Four generations of Sikh studies: A personal view
This perspective on the development of Sikh Studies over the twentieth century intersperses personal reminiscences from the past four decades with a chronological overview of the modern development of the subject. Beginning with an outline of some of the pioneering achievements of the great Singh Sabha scholars and of subsequent developments in the Punjab in the succeeding generations, it then discusses some of the tensions between traditional sc…
ʿAṭṭār and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight
The Story of Sayf al-Mulūk in South Asia
Seyf-el-Mulook answered him, May God (whose name be exalted!) make it [thy country] ever to be honoured by thy rule, O King! And the King Faghfoor Shah said, Nought hath brought thee hither save some affair that hath occurred to thee; and whatever thing thou desirest to obtain from my country, I will accomplish it for thee. Most English readers may not remember the story these lines from Edward Lane's translation relate to, but the sub-Biblical l…
Ghazal as World Literature I: Transformations of a Literary Genre * by Thomas Bauer and Angelika Neuwirth
Journal Article Ghazal as World Literature I: Transformations of a Literary GenreBy Thomas Bauer and Angelika Neuwirth Get access Ghazal as World Literature I: Transformations of a Literary GenreBy Thomas Bauer and Angelika Neuwirth (Beirut: Ergon Verlang, 2005), 447 pp. Price €54.00. ISBN 3-89913-406-0. Christopher Shackle Christopher Shackle School of Oriental and African Studies, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Repackaging the ineffable: Changing styles of Sikh scriptural commentary
The special importance of the Ādi Granth as the defining scripture of the Sikhs has encouraged the production of commentaries whose language and approach reflect changing understandings of the Gurus' teachings over the last four centuries. The oral style of the earlier commentaries which typically demonstrate a catholic inclusiveness towards the wider Indic tradition came largely to be replaced in the twentieth century by the more exclusive appro…
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