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The quest of kabir: Conscience as poetry in pre-modern India
(İbn Haldun Üniversitesi, Medeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü, 2021) Kumar, Rajeev; Asil, Ercüment; Medeniyetler İttifakı Enstitüsü, Medeniyet Araştırmaları Ana Bilim Dalı
Pre-modern India, also known as the Bhakti period, is a crucial period in Indian history. Kabir, as an oral poet, is the most remarkable figure of this period. Many scholars, particularly historians, have differed in assessing Kabir within a broader historical context. However, no scholar has tried yet to study Kabir from the civilization perspective. That is what I intend to do in this thesis and while doing so, I argue that Kabir's poetry embodies muhabbate-e kul and represents a civilizational metaphor or conscience that was achieved in pre modern India. To support my argument, I invoke Marshall G S Hodgson’s projection of Islamicate highlighting three figures in unity in the Indian subcontinent: Kabir, Akbar, and Abu’l Fazl. Akbar, the Mughal Emperor, and his advisor-cum-historian Abu’l Fazl developed sulh-e kul (universal peace). Both intended to establish muhabbate-e kul(universal love) that was based on the conscience developed by Kabir. Thus, muhabbate-e kul embodies and justifies Hodgson’s neologism of Islamicate civilization…