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Shamsur
Rahman Faruqi
Early
Urdu Literary Culture and History
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001 |
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| With the author's full
permission,
I am making this important work available here. In order to preserve
the
page structure and diacritics, the chapters will be in PDF format. The
book was originally put together on my computer, and was published as
camera-ready
copy, so this version comes from my own files. Any small differences in
word spacing and other details between the printed version and the one
available here are due to my changeover in the meantime from DOS Nota
Bene
to Windows Nota Bene.
The calligraphic design above says "bab-e avval," or "First Part." It was most generously created by Adil Mansuri of New Jersey as one of *a set of chapter dividers for the book*. *Acknowledgments*
This book is more or less an
English
version of the author's earlier Urdu work, Urdu ka ibtida'i
zamanah:
adabi tahzib o tarikh ke pahlu (Karachi: Aj Ki Kitaben, 1999). The
two are not identical, however. The author was able to add some new
material
at various points in the English version. Here is *Chapter One in the Urdu version*. Because of this book's
popularity, it was also brought out in a Hindi edition: Urdu ka arambhik yug (New Delhi:
Rajkamal Prakashan, 2007). Here is *Chapter
One in the Hindi version*. |
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