Dobhashi puthi sahittye Moharram/ দোভাষী পুঁথি সাহিত্যে মহররম

Abstract

The greatest contribution of Muslim poets and writers in terms of subject diversity in medieval Bengali literature is the Dobhashi Puthi literature. This Dobhashi Puthi literature is an important part of Bengali literature. Before the invention of printing, this Puthi was universal and part of our tradition. There was a time when Puthi was read in every house. This literature is written in a combination of Arabic, Urdu, Persian and Hindi languages. Its period was from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. Both the authors and readers of this literature were the Muslim community. This literature is also called Islamic Bengali literature or Islamic Puthi literature, Islamic Bengali literature covers a large part of the Bengali language and literature. This literature breathed new life into the Bengali language. It quenched the literary thirst of millions of ordinary Bengalis. Although this genre is now almost extinct. Eminent Islamic scholar Dr. Osman Gani says that this Islamic puthi literature was created in the 18th century, it flourished in the 19th century, it declined in the 20th century and it is almost extinct in the 21st century. A large part of this interpretive puthi literature covers the tragic events of Moharram or Karbala. Muslim poets and writers have written one after another interpretive puthi literature based on the tragic events of Karbala or Moharram. In the 18th century, Shah Garibullah, the creator of interpretive puthi literature, composed 'Jangnama'. Then, following him, other poets who became famous for writing poetry in the interpretive style from the 18th to the 19th centuries include Radhacharan Gope, Mir Manohar, Wajid Ali, Janab Ali. Muhammad Munshi, Saad Ali, Abdul Wahab, etc.