Religious Studies and Theology, Vol 31, No 1 (2012)

Sense Experience: A Reading of the Verse of the Punjabi Sufi, Bulleh Shah

Anita Mir
Issued Date: 25 Nov 2012

Abstract


This article offers an analysis of the work of the Punjabi Sufi poet, Bulleh Shah (1680–1758) and will attempt to show how one form of the transcendence his verse depicts is a sensible transcendence.

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DOI: 10.1558/rsth.v31i1.55

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