Mappilapattu; As a Source to Reach Out to the Life of Mappilas of Malabar
Journal Title: IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature ( IMPACT : IJRHAL ) - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 9
Abstract
Mappilas, the Muslim community of the south-west coast of India have a unique place in the socio-cultural and hi storical arena of Kerala. The literary contributions of the Mappilas are often called as Mappilapattu or mappila songs. Map pilapattu, have been classified into different variants in accordance with different themes. In the beginning, Mappilapattuw ere written in long papers having a low width, such papers are known as ‘safeena’ in Arabic. These songs usually called as safeenasongs. The second group of Mappila songs is malappattukal, which narrates the extraordinary and brave life of me n. Similarly, padappattukal describes the background and of the ideological struggles especially the anti-colonial struggles in Malabar. Kissapattukalnarrates the different episodes of a story especially the stories of regional importance and Islamic expansion during prophet time and its background. kessupattukal articulated the feelings of love or love stories. kathupattu kal(letter songs) explains the pain of separation of the couples. Kallyanapattugal (marriage song), the special branch of son gs especially during the occasion of marriage day celebration.These all verities expressed the inner feelings of a particular group of society. More often than not mappilapattu reflected the different aspects of individual life and social behavior. Ind eed these literary contributions of the Mappilas left out a permanent insight on the Mappila life. So this is through the stud y of these songs we can reach out to the life of Mappilasof Malabar.
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Mohamed Haseeb . N
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