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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, Nile, editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lingua francas.

Eurasia.

Persian language--History.

Persian language.

History.

Lingua francas--Eurasia.

Genre:

History.

Essays.

Physical Description:

xvi, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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.

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Persianate world

ISBN:

9780520300927

0520300920

OCLC:

1054370378