Puthi-Pora: 'Melodic Reading' and its Use in the Islamisation of Bengal by Kane, David M.

Puthi-Pora: 'Melodic Reading' and its Use in the Islamisation of Bengal (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780955279188)

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Format: Paperback
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Puthi-Pora: 'Melodic Reading' and its Use in the Islamisation of Bengal by Kane, David M.

Puthi-Pora: 'Melodic Reading' and its Use in the Islamisation of Bengal

$35.54
Puthi-Pora: 'Melodic Reading' and its Use in the Islamisation of Bengal by Kane, David M.

Puthi-Pora: 'Melodic Reading' and its Use in the Islamisation of Bengal

$35.54
Format: Paperback
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This 288 page book is a reproduction of David Kane's 2008 doctoral thesis on puthi-poṛa, a Bengali tradition of book and manuscript reading. Kane's thesis pursues two central aims. The first is ethnographic: to provide a documentation and description of puthi-poṛa as it was performed in Sylhet, Bangladesh, in 2005. The second is historical: to shed light on a historical mystery-how Islam spread so rapidly and pervasively in Bengal from the sixteenth century. Kane's hypothesis is that puthi-poṛa was used in this process.

Author: David M. Kane
ISBN-10: 0955279186
ISBN-13: 9780955279188
Publisher: Blurb
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d

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