Research Catalog

Title

The Persianate world : the frontiers of a Eurasian lingua franca / edited by Nile Green.

Publication

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Green, Nile

Description

xvi, 340 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact and mechanisms remain underexplored. A world historical inquiry into pre-modern cosmopolitanism, The Persianate World traces the reach and limits of Persian as a Eurasian language in a comprehensive survey of its geographical, literary, and social frontiers. From Siberia to Southeast Asia, and between London and Beijing, this book shows how Persian gained, maintained, and finally surrendered its status to imperial and vernacular competitors. Capturing the Persianate as process, fourteen essays trace Persian's interactions with Bengali, Chinese, Turkic, and Punjabi, to identify the forces that extended 'Persographia,' the domain of written Persian. Spanning the ages' expansion and contraction, The Persianate World offers a critical survey of both the supports and constraints of one of history's key languages of global exchange"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Lingua francas
• Essays
• Lingua francas > Eurasia
• Persian language > History
• Eurasia
• History
• Central Asia

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Terms of Use (note)

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Contents

Introduction : the frontiers of the Persianate world / Nile Green -- Imperial ambitions, mystical aspirations: Persian learning in the Ottoman world / Murat Umut Inan -- Persian at the court or in the village? The elusive presence of Persian in Bengal / Thibaut d'Hubert -- The uses of Persian in imperial China : translating practices at the Ming court / Graeme Ford -- Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk : literary frontiers in Muslim inner Asia / Devin Deweese -- Marking boundaries and building bridges : Persian scholarly networks in Mughal Punjab / Purnima Dhavan -- A lingua franca in decline? The place of Persian in Qing China / David Brophy -- Speaking "Bukharan" : the circulation of Persian texts in imperial Russia / Alfrid Bustanov -- Lingua franca or lingua magica? Talismanic scrolls from eastern Turkestan / Alexandre Papas -- Conflicting meanings of Persianate culture: an intimate example from colonial India and Britain / Michael H. Fisher -- De-persifying court culture : the Khanate of Khiva's translation program / Marc Toutant -- Dissidence from a distance : the Iranian constitutional revolution viewed from Russian Daghestan / Rebecca Ruth Gould -- From Peshawar to Tehran : an anti-imperialist poet of the late Persianate milieu / Abbas Amanat -- Epilogue : the Persianate millennium / Brian spooner.

Call Number

JFE 19-8742

ISBN

• 9780520300927
• 0520300920

LCCN

2018044520

OCLC

• 1054370378
• 1054370378

Title

The Persianate world : the frontiers of a Eurasian lingua franca / edited by Nile Green.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Terms Of Use

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Added Author

Green, Nile, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Persianate world Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520972100 (DLC) 2018050251

Research Call Number

JFE 19-8742