Kamal Khan Rustami

Kamal Khan Rustami (fl. 1649) was a poet in the Sultanate of Bijapur, who wrote in Deccani and Persian.[1]

In 1647, the court poets were asked by queen Khadija Sultana to make a Deccani translation of Muhammad ibn Husam's 15th-century Persian prose Khavarannama ("Book of the East"), which focused on the campaigns of the venerated Shia figure Ali. Presented under a slightly altered title, Rustami's Khavarnama (1649) was the work that won the competition.[2] This poem is the longest masnavi written in Deccani, with over 24,000 verses.[3] It is considered a translation even though it differs from the Persian original in some ways.[4]

References

  1. ^ Sharma 2020, p. 402.
  2. ^ Sharma 2020, p. 408.
  3. ^ Sharma 2020, pp. 408–409.
  4. ^ Sharma 2020, p. 409.

Sources

  • Sharma, Sunil (2020). "Forging a Canon of Dakhni Literature: Translations and Retellings from Persian". In Overton, Keelan (ed.). Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 1400–1700. Indiana University Press. pp. 401–420. ISBN 978-0253048912.
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