Papers by Abir Bazaz
Oxford University Press eBooks, Dec 17, 2023
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Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures, 2023
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Education about Asia (Teaching Resource Journal), 2021
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Seminar, 2021
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Routledge eBooks, Nov 16, 2022
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Seminar India, 2020
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Abir Bazaz tackles the question of what it means to make a film about the Sufi traditions of the ... more Abir Bazaz tackles the question of what it means to make a film about the Sufi traditions of the Kashmir Valley. In conversation with Max Kramer he talks about the film-form and Dastavezi's interest in aesthetics and theory.
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Nund Rishi (1378–1440), or Shaikh Nūr al-Dīn Nūrānī, revered and remembered by most Kashmiris as ... more Nund Rishi (1378–1440), or Shaikh Nūr al-Dīn Nūrānī, revered and remembered by most Kashmiris as the ‘ Alamdār (flag-bearer) of Kashmir, is one of the most significant figures in the history of religion and literature in Kashmir. The mystical poetry of Nund Rishi is not merely one among the many Muslim literary apocalypses across the Middle East and South Asia, it also constitutes an ‘apocalypse from below’—a vernacular apocalypse that questions religious and political authority in medieval Kashmir. The mystical poetry (shruk) of Nund Rishi transforms the elements of a traditional apocalyptic mode in Islamic eschatology into a vernacular literary apocalyptic.
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South Asian Review, 2021
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Book Reviews by Abir Bazaz
Biblio, 2011
Review of Chandrakanta's novel, A Street in Srinagar.
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This is a book review of Nandana Bose, Madhuri Dixit (Bloomsbury, 2019).
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Economic and Political Weekly, 2021
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Books by Abir Bazaz
This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations... more This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women from the disparate religious traditions of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity expressed devotion in parallel ways. The argument is that women’s mysticism demands to be compared not because of any essential ‘female’ experience of the divine but because the parallel positions of marginalization that pre-modern women experienced led them to deploy intimate encounters with the divine to speak publicly and claim authority. The topics covered range from the Sufi devotional tradition of Sidis (Indians of African ancestry) to the Bhakti poet Mīrābaī and the nuns of Barking Abbey. Collectively the chapters show how mysticism allowed pre-modern women to speak and act by unsettling traditional gender roles and expectations for religious behaviour. At the same time as uncovering connections, the juxtaposition of women from different traditions serves to highlight distinctive features. The book draws on a range of disciplinary expertise and will be of particular interest to scholars of medieval religion and theology as well as history and literary studies.
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Nund Rishi (1378–1440) is considered one of the most important Sufi poets from Kashmir. He is rev... more Nund Rishi (1378–1440) is considered one of the most important Sufi poets from Kashmir. He is revered as the 'flag-bearer of Kashmir' ('Alamdār-e Kashmir), and his poems draw upon the hyperlocal imagery of the Kashmiri literary universe. Despite his popular status as a spiritual successor of Lal Ded, Nund Rishi's poetry has received next to no attention in modern scholarship. This book embodies Abir Bazaz's enduring engagement with the poetic corpus of Nund Rishi. By unpacking the cryptic philosophical and philological riddles in the poems, Bazaz unearths a negative theology in Nund Rishi's mystical poetry. He argues convincingly that the themes of Islam, Death, the Nothing and the Apocalyptic in these poems reveal an existential politics. Bazaz further suggests that the apophatic style of Nund Rishi's poems is in turn mirrored in mystical poetry across South Asia and the larger Indo-Persian world.
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Reviews of my book, Political Hstory of Literature by Abir Bazaz
Economic and Political Weekly, 2021
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