Islami Bangala Sahitya by Sukumar Sen [Hardcover]

"The late scholar-researcher Sukumar Sen has presented a detailed account of a literary genre that once satisfied a significant portion of the Bengali people's literary appetite but is now nearly forgotten. In the first volume of his history of Bengali literature, he was unable to fully address Islamic Bengali literature, which left him with a sense of regret. It was from this regret that he wrote this book. From that perspective, this book will be considered a valuable and complementary volume to the history of Bengali literature for expert readers.

Starting from the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries, this book introduces various phases of Islamic Bengali literature through continuous examples. It covers works by Daulat Kazi, Alaol, various romantic tales, stories of saints and mystics, the love story of Layla-Majnun, rural ballads from East Bengal, and Sari-Jari-Dramatic songs. After being out of print for a long time, this book has been newly published in its 'Ananda' edition."