The Third Grammatical Treatise (3GT) by Óláfr fiór›arson hvítaskáld. The main Old Norse (-Icelandic) texts dealing with runology or the uses of runes and known in the seventeenth century were: 1. language, writing and literature as such, I will be restricting this survey largely to published material, but I will make some reference to unpublished works and correspondence. I wish to place these works within the context of some broad intellectual movements of the period, particularly those which affected theories of. I will concentrate on scholarly works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which discuss Old Norse-Icelandic runology and/or myth. This paper will draw together some of my own work and that of others on the history of the study of runes. In examining the life of a text across the subject-author-text-community continuum over a time-span of nearly four hundred years, the dissertation traces the Nabīvaṃśa’s trajectory from its manuscript circulation in southeast Bengal into the print era, investigating the author’s legacy and the text’s meaning in various publics of memory. By situating the Nabīvaṃśa, on the one hand, in the literary traditions of medieval Islam-historiographies, tales of the prophets, biographies and ascension narratives of the Prophet Muḥammad-and in local Bangla epic, purāṇic, and hagiographical traditions, on the other, the dissertation studies the processes of translation by which local cultural figures and Bangla literary forms are used to legitimate and root the Arabian Prophet of Islam in Bengal. 1615–1646), who was an important Sufi pīr. These were central concerns of the author, Saiyad Sultān (fl. This hitherto little-studied text is used to examine the nature of Islamic expansion on Bengal’s eastern frontier, addressing issues of religious competition, identity formation, and conversion. A literary milestone in the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural history of Islam, it marks a significant contribution to Bangla’s rich literary corpus, and became a canonical work for the late-medieval Islamic. The present dissertation is a study of the Nabīvaṃśa, “The Prophet’s Lineage,” the first biography of the Prophet Muḥammad to be composed in Bangla, in the first half of the seventeenth century.
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