Persian and Arabic literary communities in the seventeenth century : migrant poets between Arabia, Iran and India / James White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, James, 1749-1809, author.

Series:

I.B. Tauris studies in prophecy, the apocalypse and millennialism.

I.B. Tauris studies in prophecy, the apocalypse and millennialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : I. B. Tauris, [2023]

Summary:

A wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian Sea during the seventeenth century, as merchants from South Asia traded goods in the ports of Yemen, noblemen from Safavid Iran established themselves in the courts of the Mughal Empire, and scholars from across the region came together to debate the Islamic sciences in the Arabian Peninsula's holy cities of Mecca and Medina. This book demonstrates that the globalising tendency of migration created worldly literary systems which linked Iran, India and the Arabian Peninsula through the production and circulation of classicizing Arabic and Persian poetry. By close reading over seventy unstudied manuscripts of seventeenth-century Arabic and Persian poetry that have remained hidden on the shelves of libraries in India, Iran, Turkey and Europe, the book examines how migrant poets adapted shared poetic forms, imagery and rhetoric to engage with their interlocutors and create communities in the cities where they settled. The book begins by reconstructing overarching patterns in the movement of over a thousand authors, and the economic basis for their migration, before focusing on six case studies of literary communities, which each represent a different location in the circulatory system of the Arabian Sea. In so doing, the book demonstrates the plurality of seventeenth-century aesthetic movements, a diversity which later nationalisms purposefully simplified and misread.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

A note on transliteration and dates

A note on geographical terminology

Map

A summary list of key historical figures

Part I: Distant Readings in Seventeenth-Century Migration

Introduction: Connected literary history

Chapter 1: Society in motion: The prosopography and economics of seventeenth-century migratory networks across the Arabian Sea

Part II: Close Readings of Literary Networks

Chapter 2: Hyderabad: Ibn Maʿsum

Chapter 3: Sanʿaʾ: Al-Sarim al-Hindi

Chapter 4: Mashhad: Al-Hurr al-ʿAmili

Chapter 5: Hyderabad: Faraj Allah Al-Shushtari and Salik Yazdi

Chapter 6: Kabul and North India: Saʾib, Ilahi, Ahsan and Ashna

Chapter 7: Isfahan: Salim, Darvish Yusuf and Akbar

Conclusion

Manuscript sources

Notes

Bibliography of print works

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: White, James Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century

ISBN:

9780755644582

OCLC:

1376931315