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dc.identifier	ECF_article_677
dc.title	Literary Mirrors and the Reconstruction of the Holy Places of Shiism in Nawabi Lucknow. A Few Topological Asides from Qatīl to Ghālib
dc.contributor.author	Pellò Stefano
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2017/1/literary-mirrors-and-the-reconstruction-of-the-hol/
dc.description.abstract	The article deals with a few literary responses, in Persian and Urdu, to the reconstruction of the sacred places of Shiite Islam in the North Indian centre of Lucknow. Focusing on some lines of poetry of representative authors of the period such as Ghālib and Qatīl, the paper hints at some possible and hitherto overlooked textual paths to look at the capital of the Shiite state of Awadh as a significant literary space-time to be located in a peculiar ‘region’ of that geography of the ‘Ajam and the Indo-Persian. By adopting a loose topological approach, we show how an analysis of the poetical discourse on the city and the places of Shiite pilgrimages might help in understanding how the Nawabi architectural theatrics were received and what were the implications of the urban dissemination of Imambaras and other comparable structures.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 53 \| Giugno 2017
dc.issued	2017-06-20
dc.dateAccepted	2017-05-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-04-19
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2385-3042/AnnOr-53-17-5
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ghalib
dc.subject	Ghalib
dc.subject	Imambara
dc.subject	Imambara
dc.subject	Indo-Persian
dc.subject	Indo-Persian
dc.subject	Lucknow
dc.subject	Lucknow
dc.subject	Qatil
dc.subject	Qatil
dc.subject	Shi‘a
dc.subject	Shi‘a

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Literary Mirrors and the Reconstruction of the Holy Places of Shiism in Nawabi Lucknow

A Few Topological Asides from Qatīl to Ghālib

Stefano Pellò Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

The article deals with a few literary responses, in Persian and Urdu, to the reconstruction of the sacred places of Shiite Islam in the North Indian centre of Lucknow. Focusing on some lines of poetry of representative authors of the period such as Ghālib and Qatīl, the paper hints at some possible and hitherto overlooked textual paths to look at the capital of the Shiite state of Awadh as a significant literary space-time to be located in a peculiar ‘region’ of that geography of the ‘Ajam and the Indo-Persian. By adopting a loose topological approach, we show how an analysis of the poetical discourse on the city and the places of Shiite pilgrimages might help in understanding how the Nawabi architectural theatrics were received and what were the implications of the urban dissemination of Imambaras and other comparable structures.

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20 Giugno 2017

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29 Maggio 2017

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19 Aprile 2017

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Keywords: Lucknow • Indo-Persian • Shi‘a • Ghalib • Imambara • Qatil

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