The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2019

The Persianate World

The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

Edited by: Nile Green

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520972100

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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. Fourteen essays trace Persian’s interactions with Bengali, Chinese, Turkic, Punjabi, and other languages to identify the forces that extended “Persographia,” the domain of written Persian. Spanning the ages of 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.

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Green Nile :

Nile Green holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Sufism: A Global History and Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam and editor of Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
A Note on Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800–1900) Nile Green Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I. Pan-Eurasian Expansions, ca. 1400–1600
1. Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World Murat Umut Inan Open Access Download PDF	75
2. Persian at the Court or in the Village? The Elusive Presence of Persian in Bengal Thibaut d’ Hubert Open Access Download PDF	93
3. The Uses of Persian in Imperial China: Translating Practices at the Ming Court Graeme Ford Open Access Download PDF	113
4. Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers in Muslim Inner Asia Devin DeWeese Open Access Download PDF	131
Part II. The Constraints of Cosmopolitanism, ca. 1600–1800
5. Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian Scholarly Networks in Mughal Punjab Purnima Dhavan Open Access Download PDF	159
6. A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China David Brophy Open Access Download PDF	175
7. Speaking “Bukharan”: The Circulation of Persian Texts in Imperial Russia Alfrid Bustanov Open Access Download PDF	193
8. Lingua Franca or Lingua Magica? Talismanic Scrolls from Eastern Turkistan Alexandre Papas Open Access Download PDF	207
Part III. New Empires, New Nations, ca. 1800–1920
9. Conflicting Meanings of Persianate Culture: An Intimate Example from Colonial India and Britain Michael H. Fisher Open Access Download PDF	225
10. De-Persifying Court Culture: The Khanate of Khiva’s Translation Program Marc Toutant Open Access Download PDF	243
11. Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan Rebecca Ruth Gould Open Access Download PDF	259
12. From Peshawar to Tehran: An Anti-imperialist Poet of the Late Persianate Milieu Abbas Amanat Open Access Download PDF	279
Epilogue: The Persianate Millennium Brian Spooner Open Access Download PDF	301
Glossary Open Access Download PDF	317
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	319
Index Open Access Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
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Published: April 9, 2019
ISBN: 9780520972100