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'A riveting resurrection of the city of poets, the city of history, Saif Mahmood's learned and evocative book takes us to the heart of Delhi's romance with Urdu verse and aesthetics.'--Namita GokhaleUrdu poetry rules the cultural and emotional landscape of India--especially northern India and much of the Deccan--and of Pakistan. And it was in the great, ancient city of Delhi that Urdu grew to become one of the world's most beautiful languages. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, while the Mughal Empire was in decline, Delhi became the capital of a parallel kingdom--the kingdom of Urdu poetry--producing some of the greatest, most popular poets of all time. They wrote about the pleasure and pain of love, about the splendour of God and the villainy of preachers, about the seductions of wine, and about Delhi, their beloved home. This treasure of a book documents the life and work of the finest classical Urdu poets: Sauda, Dard, Mir, Ghalib, Momin, Zafar, Zauq and Daagh. Through their biographies and poetry--including their best-known ghazals--it also paints a compelling portrait of Mughal Delhi. This is a book for anyone who has ever been touched by Urdu or Delhi, by poetry or romance.

Born in Kuwait in 1926, into a distinguished Kuwaiti family of pearl merchants and seafarers, Saif Marzooq al- Shamlan describes the final generation of the pearling industry from 1900 to the slump of the 1930s, when the development of the Japanese cultured pearl led to economic disaster for the people of the Gulf.

Foisonnante et tragique fresque s'étendant du XIIIe au XXe siècle, Le Devoir de violence raconte le destin de l'empire imaginaire de Nakem et de la dynastie des Saïf qui y règnent en maîtres retors. À travers elle, c'est l'histoire méconnue de l'Afrique qui nous est livrée de l'intérieur. Violences, assassinats, ruses, compromission des notables dans la traite des esclaves : pour la première fois, un auteur africain ne s'interdit rien dans le portrait séculaire de son continent. Pas plus qu'il ne se réfrène dans ses registres, de l'ironie mordante à l'érotisme débridé. En face, l'Europe et son système colonial - déconstruit autant que raillé - ne sont pas épargnés. Le récit se prolonge par l'errance poignante de Raymond Spartacus Kassoumi, fils de serfs.Paru en 1968, ce premier roman remporta d'emblée le premier prix Renaudot attribué à un Africain. Devenu un livre-culte, il fut contesté au Sud pour ses hardiesses politiques et au Nord pour ses audaces d'écriture. Aujourd'hui, dans cette réédition, il se lit comme une construction littéraire vertigineuse et une épopée qui figure parmi les plus grandes œuvres de la littérature mondiale.Né à Bandiagara au Mali en 1940, Yambo Ouologuem suit un parcours universitaire brillant en France avant de signer Le Devoir de violence en 1968, ainsi que Lettre à la France nègre et Les Mille et Une Bibles du sexe en 1969. Blessé par les attaques dont son œuvre est l'objet, il se retire dans sa région natale et s'enferme dans le silence. Il meurt en octobre 2017.

'A riveting resurrection of the city of poets, the city of history, Saif Mahmood's learned and evocative book takes us to the heart of Delhi's romance with Urdu verse and aesthetics.'--Namita GokhaleUrdu poetry rules the cultural and emotional landscape of India--especially northern India and much of the Deccan--and of Pakistan. And it was in the great, ancient city of Delhi that Urdu grew to become one of the world's most beautiful languages. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, while the Mughal Empire was in decline, Delhi became the capital of a parallel kingdom--the kingdom of Urdu poetry--producing some of the greatest, most popular poets of all time. They wrote about the pleasure and pain of love, about the splendour of God and the villainy of preachers, about the seductions of wine, and about Delhi, their beloved home. This treasure of a book documents the life and work of the finest classical Urdu poets: Sauda, Dard, Mir, Ghalib, Momin, Zafar, Zauq and Daagh. Through their biographies and poetry--including their best-known ghazals--it also paints a compelling portrait of Mughal Delhi. This is a book for anyone who has ever been touched by Urdu or Delhi, by poetry or romance.