The Persianate world : the frontiers of a Eurasian lingua franca /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Green, Nile (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Persian language > History. Lingua francas > Eurasia. Persan (Langue) > Histoire. Literature & literary studies. History. HISTORY / Middle East / General Lingua francas. Persian language. Eurasia. beijing. bengali. chinese. eurasian language. geographical. imperial. islamic world. language. literary. london. persian. persographia. pre modern cosmopolitanism. punjabi. shared language. siberia. social frontiers. southeast asia. turkic. under explored language. vernacular competitors. world historical inquiry. world history. written persian. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.