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Rather, in its depiction of women characters, Chachnama does not gener-
ally follow the conventions of tari'kh or adab literature.- Fathnama, p. 14.
5. Ibid. - Ibid., p. 15.
7. Ibid. - Ibid., p. 16.
- Ibid., p. 19.
IO. Ibid., p. 169.
II. Ibid., p. 170.
I2. Ibid., p. 173. - Ibid., p. 171.
- Ibid., p. 188.
- Ibid.
r6. Uncured leather contracts as it dries and would crush anyone sewn inside it. - Fathnama, p. 188.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., p. 190.
- Accounts from medieval Europe also describe the punishment of immure-
ment. The early-thirteenth-century writer Der Stricker, writer of Roland's
song cycles, Arthurian legends, and the comic tales known as the Maren,
often featured women in clever and witty combative roles with their husbands
and their towns. One of Stricker's stories is "Die Eingemauerte Frau" (The
Walled Woman). Though immurement here is a punishment, the woman who
is constantly rebuking her husband has a religious conversion while entombed
and is released by the Holy Spirit. The immurement of women (and children)
in walls is a common motif in other foundation legends, as explicated by
Alan Dundes in The Walled-Up Wife.-A Casebook (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press,-1996). - Fathnama, p. 179.
- Ibid., p. 175.
- Ibid.
- Tabaqat-i Nasiri, p. 535.
- Ibid., p. 536.
- Ibid., p. 498. In fact, a reading of that account puts Mohammad Bakhtiyar
Khilji in a much more ethically dubious light than the raja. Bakhtiyar's
warfare is shown as unethical and devoid of respect for civilians-whether
Muslim or Hindu-while the raja always acts in the best interests of his
subjects. - The text shares much in form and content with Chachnama as it attempts
to create a political theory•for an intertwined elite of the early-fourteenth-
century Delhi sultanate. See Michael Boris Bednar, "The Content and the
Form in Amir Khusraw's Duval Rani va Khi~r Khan," fournal of the Royal
Asiatic Society 24, I (2014), pp. 17-35. - I am reading transgression here, following Michel Foucault, as "an action
which involves the limit, that narrow zone of a line where it displays the