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Maaz Bin Bilal, "Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras by Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan" (India Penguin Classics, 2022)

New Books in Poetry

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The Greatest Poet of the 19th Century

Ralib was arguably the greatest poet of the 19th century. His Persian poetry is not as widely known, especially in South Asia. The poem brings to the fore a kind of symbiotic Muslim relationship to South Asia that has existed for a good millennium or so. It's doing some very interesting things in terms of South Asian syncretism.

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