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The Muhammad Avat ra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam

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The Muhammad Avat ra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam - Irani, Ayesha A
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The Muhammad Avatara examines the under-studied seventeenth-century Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan, revealing the role of vernacular translation in the spread of Islam to Bengal. The Nabivamsa retells the life of the Prophet Muhammad for the first time to Bengalis in their mother-tongue. In this book, Ayesha Irani delineates the challenges Saiyad Sultan faced in articulating the pre-eminence of Islam in a land where multiple religious affiliations were common. This text-critical study lays bare the sophisticated strategies of ...

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The Muhammad Avat ra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam 2021, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190089221

Hardcover