Puthi-Pora : 'melodic reading' and its use in the Islamisation of Bengal
This thesis focuses on puthi-pora, a Bengali tradition of book and manuscript reading. It pursues two central aims. The first is ethnographic: to document and describe puthi-pora as it is performed today in Sylhet, Bangladesh. The second is historical: to shed light on a historical mystery-how Islam...
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SOAS, University of London
2008
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758526 |