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Puthi-Pora: 'Melodic Reading' and its Use in the Islamisation of Bengal David M Kane
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Puthi-Pora: 'Melodic Reading' and its Use in the Islamisation of Bengal
David M Kane
This 288 page book is a reproduction of David Kane's 2008 doctoral thesis on puthi-po?a, 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-po?a 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-po?a was used in this process.
288 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | March 15, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9780955279188 |
| Publishers | Sylheti Translation and Research |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 152 × 24 mm · 520 g |
| Language | English |
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