How do we understand the Islamicness of Urdu poetry and also the spread of Urdu poetry far beyond the bounds…
Anand Vivek Taneja
Anand Vivek Taneja is assistant professor of religious studies and anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi. He is currently working on a second book, provisionally titled "The Gabriel of Madness: Urdu Poetry and Muslim Ethics in the Age of Hindu Nationalism."
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