{"product_id":"the-persianate-world-9780520300927","title":"The Persianate World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.    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 Worldtraces 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. Fourteen essays trace Persian's interactions with Bengali, Chinese, Turkic, Punjabi, and other languages toidentify the forces that extended Persographia, the domain of written Persian. Spanning the ages of expansion and contraction,The Persianate Worldoffers a critical survey of both the supports and constraints of one of history's key languages of global exchange.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tour de force of erudition.\" * Asian Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Disassociated from methodological nationalist agendas, the collection presents a comprehensive overview of the contributions and constraints of cosmopolitanism in the Persianate world, spanning from the Ottoman Empire, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India, China, and of course, Iran.\" * Middle East Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Maps and Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800–1900)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNile Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Pan-Eurasian Expansions, ca. 1400–1600\u003cbr\u003e 1. Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the\u003cbr\u003e Ottoman World\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurat Umut Inan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Persian at the Court or in the Village? The Elusive Presence of Persian\u003cbr\u003e in Bengal\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThibaut d’Hubert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Uses of Persian in Imperial China: Translating Practices at the\u003cbr\u003e Ming Court\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGraeme Ford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers in\u003cbr\u003e Muslim Inner Asia\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDevin DeWeese\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Constraints of Cosmopolitanism, ca. 1600–1800\u003cbr\u003e 5. Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian Scholarly\u003cbr\u003e Networks in Mughal Punjab\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePurnima Dhavan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Brophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e viii Contents\u003cbr\u003e 7. Speaking “Bukharan”: The Circulation of Persian Texts in\u003cbr\u003e Imperial Russia\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlfrid Bustanov\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Lingua Franca or Lingua Magica? Talismanic Scrolls from\u003cbr\u003e Eastern Turkistan\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandre Papas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. New Empires, New Nations, ca. 1800–1920\u003cbr\u003e 9. Conflicting Meanings of Persianate Culture: An Intimate Example\u003cbr\u003e from Colonial India and Britain\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael H. Fisher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. De-Persifying Court Culture: The Khanate of Khiva’s Translation\u003cbr\u003e Program\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarc Toutant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed from\u003cbr\u003e Colonial Daghestan\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRebecca Ruth Gould\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. From Peshawar to Tehran: An Anti-imperialist Poet of the Late\u003cbr\u003e Persianate Milieu\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbbas Amanat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Persianate Millennium\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrian Spooner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402913915223,"sku":"9780520300927","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520300927.jpg?v=1730481829","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-persianate-world-9780520300927","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}