- Additional Authors
- Green, Nile.
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Persianate world (Online)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780520972100
- LCCN
- 2018050251
- OCLC
- ssj0002177512
- Title
The Persianate world [electronic resource] : the frontiers of a Eurasian lingua franca / edited by Nile Green.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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/
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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Green, Nile.
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Print version: Persianate world Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520300927 (DLC) 2018044520