The Persianate World
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The Persianate World

The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

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The Persianate World

The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

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A 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 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 toidentify 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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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780520972100
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Maps and Illustrations
  6. A Note on Transliteration
  7. Preface and Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800–1900)
  9. PART I. PAN-EURASIAN EXPANSIONS, CA. 1400–1600
  10. PART II. THE CONSTRAINTS OF COSMOPOLITANISM, CA. 1600–1800
  11. PART III. NEW EMPIRES, NEW NATIONS, CA. 1800–1920
  12. Epilogue: The Persianate Millennium
  13. Glossary
  14. List of Contributors