2/12/2024 0 Comments Shadow of a doubt farah lyricsNone of them are duly taken care of or taught in any of the departments devoted to literature due to various reasons. All these things need to be properly clarified and salvaged from current misappropriations of them in academia. Given this scenario, the paper calls for better attention to three things to properly study Kashmiri Sufi poetry: Metaphysics, symbolism and sacred centric criticism. Khayyal expressing inability to get proper answer to this issue from any contemporary work on criticism. Even such elementary questions as appropriation of traditional religious, philosophical and literary heritage in illiterate Sufi poets don’t seem to have been properly dealt with and we find senior scholars like G. Sufi poetry has been subject of some doctoral theses from such stalwarts as Rashid Nazki and later scholars but a cursory perusal of all these studies shows their limited canvas in treating the deeper hermeneutical questions that we shall be exploring. We have no systematic study that clarifies relation between Sufi and “non-Sufi romantic” or modernist poets. We don’t see systematic application of any of major critical perspectives on representative selections of it. We have neither metaphysical nor philosophical commentaries on it. We have no proper treatment of symbolism deployed by Sufi poets. We have from modern We have critics deploying psychological or psychoanalytic reductionism that reduces both loal and Sufi understanding of ishq to sex. We have extremely conflicting estimates of more recent Sufi poets – mostly they are written off as copyists or not warranting serious critical attentions. One reading reduces their number to seven. We have other critics disputing number of genuine Sufi poets and questions regarding Sufi poetic credentials of even major Sufi poets like Shams Faqeer and Wahab Khar. We have critics admitting their failure to identify the signified of the term Kashmiri Sufi poetry as a separate genre. We have sharply divergent views equally guilty of meaning closure or epistemic chauvinism. Reviewing the contemporary scenario of criticism of Kashmiri Sufi poetry one acutely feels the problem of hermeneutical despair. There are some questions and issues that have been hotly debated by critics of Kashmiri Sufi poetry.
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