Book Summary
The devotional and mystical literature of the Ismailis in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent is a little known but rich seam of creativity in the cultural heritage of Islam. The book focuses on the Ginans, a large corpus of hymns and poems composed in a variety of Indic languages and attributed to a series of preacher-saints who propagated the Ismaili form of Islam in the subcontinent over several centuries.
Book Details
Book Name | Ecstasy And Englightenment |
Author | Ali S. Asani |
Publisher | I. B. Tauris & Company (Jul 2002) |
ISBN | 9781860647581 |
Pages | 224 |
Language | English |
Price | 1925 |