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The Logic of the Birds

The Logic of the Birds

Released: 2024-04-13
© 2024 The Logic of the Birds
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7 Episodes
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7 Episodes
Audio
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Released: 2024-04-13
© 2024 The Logic of the Birds
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Episode 7: Amir Khusraw

Episode 7: Amir Khusraw

Professors Prashant Keshavmurthy and Shankar Nair explore the brilliant and multilingual poetry of Amir Khusraw (651-725 /1253–1325), one of the most celebrated and influential South Asian poets, known as Tuti-i Hindi, “The Parrot of India”. A cou
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Professors Prashant Keshavmurthy and Shankar Nair explore the brilliant and multilingual poetry of Amir Khusraw (651-725 /1253–1325), one of the most celebrated and influential South Asian poets, known as Tuti-i Hindi, “The Parrot of India”. A court poet and an devoted disciple of the great Sufi saint, Nizam al-din Awliya’ (next to whom he is buried in Delhi), Khusraw is known for his mastery of multiple genres, flowing style and īhām (double or more-entendres), his musical ability (he is sometimes called “the father of qawwali”), and remarkable creativity. His poetry is still popularly sung today in South Asia and South […]
Episode ID: 1000652290666
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Release Date: 13/04/2024, 01:17:24

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Join us as we engage in enlightening conversations with eminent scholars and poets from around the world to explore these and other questions.
Focusing on Sufi poetry, this podcast series will explore some of the great poets and poems in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Wolof, Hausa, Swahili, Panjabi, Malay, and more.
Our conversations will examine how these traditions cultivated perspectives and popular literary traditions that wedded the sensual and intellectual, the aesthetic and the ethical, the affective and rational, the logical and the spiritual, the philosophical and mystical.

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