Unraveling the Ethos of Literary Imagination in the Basātin al-ons of Akhsetān Dehlavi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12957619 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pranav Prakash (0000-0003-4510-7832, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 12-41 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Persianate Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1874-7094 • E-ISSN: 1874-7167 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18747167-bja10044 |
| OpenAlex | W4403151533 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Basātin al-ons (The Gardens of Fondness, 1325–26) is the sole surviving work of an erudite courtier named Akhsetān Dehlavi (1301–51), who spent most of his adult life in the service of the sultan Gheyās al-Din Toghloq ( r . 1320–24) and his son Mohammad b. Toghloq Shāh ( r . 1324–51). This work exemplifies one of the earliest efforts by an Indian writer to interweave history, autobiography, eulogy, and folklore in the Persian genre of stylized prose ( nasr ). Against this backdrop, my essay examines the preface of the Basātin al-ons to elucidate the factors that motivated Akhsetān Dehlavi to narrate a collection of Hindavi tales in Persian prose
Aesthetics · Art · Ethos · Linguistics · Literature · Metallurgy · Tin · Education and Islamic Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Materials Science · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy
A Political History of Literature
Transmitters of authority and ideas across cultural boundaries, eleventh to eighteenth centuries
Ibn `Arabī’s Mystical Poetics
Metaphors of Authorship in Medieval Persian Prose
Indo-Persian historiography up to the thirteenth century
Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8
| Highly cited | No |
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