The authorial problem in the á¸´áº–Ä liq BÄ rÄ« of ‘Ḵẖusrau’

Walter N. Hakala
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Walter N. Hakala: University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2014, vol. 51, issue 4, 481-496

Abstract: The á¸´áº–Ä liq BÄ rÄ« is the most famous South Asian example of the niá¹£Ä b genre of multilingual versified vocabularies, comprising synonymous or near-synonymous terms and phrases drawn from Arabic, Persian and early HindawÄ«. Its persistent popularity in the South Asian Islamicate educational system is the result primarily of its association with the celebrated fourteenth-century Persian poet AmÄ«r ‘Ḵẖusrau’ DihlawÄ«. This article examines the debates surrounding the authorship of this text, examining both early attributions and more recent nationalist interpretations of the work in light of internal and manuscript evidence. The chaotic structural organisation and mnemonic technologies deployed throughout the á¸´áº–Ä liq BÄ rÄ«, as well as the multilingual character of the text itself, would suggest that the effort to identify of a single author or original text is misplaced.

Keywords: Lexicography; authorship; Indo-Persian; Urdu; Hindi; Ḵẖusrau (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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