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| * {{Cite book |last=Hutton |first=Deborah |title=Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323-1687 |year=2011 |pages=44-63 |chapter=The Pem Nem: A Sixteenth Century Illustrated Romance from Bijapur}} | * {{Cite book |last=Hutton |first=Deborah |title=Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323-1687 |year=2011 |pages=44-63 |chapter=The Pem Nem: A Sixteenth Century Illustrated Romance from Bijapur}} | ||
| * {{Cite book |last=Munshi |first=Neha |title=A journey of longing - the art of courtly romance in Bijapur |url=https://www.academia.edu/50794947/A_journey_of_longing_the_art_of_courtly_romance_in_Bijapur}} |
* {{Cite book |last=Munshi |first=Neha |title=A journey of longing - the art of courtly romance in Bijapur |url=https://www.academia.edu/50794947/A_journey_of_longing_the_art_of_courtly_romance_in_Bijapur}} | ||
| * {{Cite book |last=Matthews |first=David |title=From Cairo to Kabul: Afghan and Islamic Studies presented to Ralph Pinder-Wilson |chapter=Pem Nem: A 16th Century Dakani Manuscript}} | |||
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Pem Nem is a 16th-century manuscript commissioned at the court of the Bijapur Sultanate. It belongs to the Prem Marg genre of Sufi literature, where a love story forms a metaphor representing the quest for the union with God. Written in an early form of Dakhni, it is a mathnawi, a long narrative poem written in rhyming couplets.
The only surviving copy of the manuscript, containing 239 folios, is situated in the British Library. It is richly illustrated, with thirty-four paintings in the Bijapur school of Deccan art.
Plot
The story is about a prince named Shah Ji and his beloved named Mah Ji.
Illustrations
There are thirty-four illustrations, mostly full-page, done by three different artists.
16th-century References
- ^ Hutton 2011, p. 44.
Bibliography
- Hutton, Deborah (2011). "The Pem Nem: A Sixteenth Century Illustrated Romance from Bijapur". Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323-1687. pp. 44–63.
- Munshi, Neha. A journey of longing - the art of courtly romance in Bijapur.
- Matthews, David. "Pem Nem: A 16th Century Dakani Manuscript". From Cairo to Kabul: Afghan and Islamic Studies presented to Ralph Pinder-Wilson.