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The making of Persianate modernity : language and literary history between Iran and India / Alexander Jabbari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jabbari, Alexander, author.
- Series:
- Global Middle East (Cambridge, England)
- The global Middle East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persian literature--Iran--History and criticism.
- Persian literature.
- Persian literature--India--History and criticism.
- Modernism (Literature)--Iran.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Literature)--India.
- Persian language--Iran--History.
- Persian language.
- Persian language--India--History.
- Iran--Relations--India.
- Iran.
- India--Relations--Iran.
- India.
- Iran--Intellectual life--19th century.
- India--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- From the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, Persian was the pre-eminent language of learning far beyond Iran, stretching from the Balkans to China. In this book, Alexander Jabbari explores what became of this vast Persian literary heritage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Iran and South Asia, as nationalism took hold and the Persianate world fractured into nation-states. He shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared past to produce a 'Persianate modernity', and create a modern genre, literary history. Drawing from both Persian and Urdu sources, Jabbari reveals the important role that South Asian Muslims played in developing Iranian intellectual and literary trends. Highlighting cultural exchange in the region, and the agency of Asian modernizers, Jabbari charts a new way forward for area studies and opens exciting possibilities for thinking about language and literature.
- Contents:
- Histories : from Tazkirah to literary history
- Erotics : from bawdy to bashfulness
- Origin myths : indigeneity and hybridity in national narratives
- Print : typography, orthography, punctuation.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Mar 2023).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-32083-1
- 1-009-32085-8
- 1-009-32082-3
- OCLC:
- 1353921524
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