The Hindi-Urdu Workshop
The Poetry of Khwajah
Mir Dard
Introduction:
This workshop is part of the biannual workshop organized by Columbia
University and the University of Pennsylvania. The topic of this term's
workshop is the poetry of Khwajah Mir Dard. It is sponsored by UPenn's
Department of South Asia Studies. The workshop is free and open to
public, but registration is required (see below).
Venue:
Sat. October 6 2007, 9 am - 4 pm
Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania
For a map showing the location of Houston hall,
please click here.
Description:
The
work of the mid-18th century Mughal poet Khwaja Mir Dard, considered
along with Mir, Sauda, and Mazhar to be "one among the four pillars of
the Urdu language," is an important part of the standard Urdu literary
canon. In addition to his importance as a poet, Dard was also
a celebrated Sufi personality and among the few prominent Urdu poets to
remain in Delhi in the midst of great political instability.
For the workshop we will examine Dard's life and works, trying to understand
his place both within the tumultuous late Mughal Empire and as a
leading figure in Urdu's "golden age."
A packet will be
available containing poems by Khwaja Mir Dard and secondary materials
for discussion. No knowledge of Urdu is required, as the
poems will be transliterated in Roman characters and translated into
English. Copies of the packet will be available at the workshop. The packet
can also be downloaded from the following sites:
Texts:
A selection of Dard's ghazals
translated and transliterated by Penn Southasia students.
The Nastaliq versions of the above
selection of Dard's ghazals.
Selections
from Matthews and Shackle, Anthology of classical Urdu love lyrics.
Ian
Bedford, Twelve Ghazals from the Divan, AUS 22 (2007).
Context:
Selections
from Azad's Ab-i Hayat
(Translated and edited by Frances W. Pritchett, in
association with Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. Āb-e
ḥayāt : shaping the canon of Urdu poetry.)
Chicago: Digital South Asia Library, 2005, pp. 175-184.
Annemarie
Schimmel, Pain and Grace, 1976, Chapter 1.
Ian
Bedford, Approaching Khvaja Mir Dard, AUS 22 (2007).
Homayra
Ziad, The Nature and Art of Discourse in the Religious Writings of
Khvaja Mir Dard, AUS 20 (2005).
Registration:
This workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is
required. To register, RSVP to Haimanti Banerjee (haimanti@sas.upenn.edu)
by Oct. 1, 2007.
Questions:
For further inquiry, please contact Till Luge (tluge@sas.upenn.edu). |
