The Persianate World The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland
University of California Press
2019
Berkeley, CA : [2019] |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424440006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- A Note on Transliteration
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800-1900)
- 1. Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World
- 2. Persian at the Court or in the Village? The Elusive Presence of Persian in Bengal
- 3. The Uses of Persian in Imperial China: Translating Practices at the Ming Court
- 4. Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers in Muslim Inner Asia
- 5. Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian Scholarly Networks in Mughal Punjab
- 6. A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China
- 7. Speaking "Bukharan": The Circulation of Persian Texts in Imperial Russia
- 8. Lingua Franca or Lingua Magica? Talismanic Scrolls from Eastern Turkistan
- 9. Conflicting Meanings of Persianate Culture: An Intimate Example from Colonial India and Britain
- 10. De-Persifying Court Culture: The Khanate of Khiva's Translation Program
- 11. Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan
- 12. From Peshawar to Tehran: An Anti-imperialist Poet of the Late Persianate Milieu
- Epilogue: The Persianate Millennium
- Glossary
- List of Contributors
- Index
