Persianate selves : memories of place and origin before nationalism /
Persianate Selves challenges accepted notions of what it meant to be Persian in the eighteenth century. Drawing on commemorative texts, this book reveals that to be Persian was not necessarily to be Iranian. Persians hailed from a variety of places across central, south and west Asia, and their sens...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Persianate Selves challenges accepted notions of what it meant to be Persian in the eighteenth century. Drawing on commemorative texts, this book reveals that to be Persian was not necessarily to be Iranian. Persians hailed from a variety of places across central, south and west Asia, and their sense of self was not tied to modern ideas of nationalism, religion or race. Mana Kia explores the common education and cultural logic that connected Persians, before the concept of the nation, describing how place, origin and memory created a sense of self unbounded by the limits of colonial modernity. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 312 pages : map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781503610682 1503610683 9781503611955 1503611957 |