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Articles with tag: Hamzanama

Revival of Dastan Goi

Tehseen Baweja   Nov 7, 2008   interacts: 7

The going-away of this art was so unnoticable that the last known dastan go "Mir Baqir" is said to have died in Delhi in extreme poverty, after reverting to selling 'Paan' as his livelihood.

The Irreverent Hero Islam Forgot

William Dalrymple   Mar 19, 2008   interacts: 388

The Adventures of Hamza is the Iliad and Odyssey of the mediaeval Persianate world: a rollicking, magic-filled heroic saga, full of myth and imagination.

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