The Persianate World
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The Persianate World
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-26
The Persianate World written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with History categories.
The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the defining features of the Persianate world from a variety of historical perspectives.
The Persianate World
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Author : Nile Green
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-04-09
The Persianate World written by Nile Green and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with History categories.
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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 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.
Sufis And Mullahs
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Author : Leonard Lewisohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Sufis And Mullahs written by Leonard Lewisohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with categories.
Literacy In The Persianate World
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Author : Brian Spooner
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-03-19
Literacy In The Persianate World written by Brian Spooner and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-19 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed—first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries it served a broader geographical area than any language in world history. It was the primary language of administration and belles lettres from the Balkans under the earlier Ottoman Empire to Central China under the Mongols, and from the northern branches of the Silk Road in Central Asia to southern India under the Mughal Empire. Its history is therefore crucial for understanding the function of writing in world history. Each of the chapters of Literacy in the Persianate World opens a window onto a particular stage of this history, starting from the reemergence of Persian in the Arabic script after the Arab-Islamic conquest in the seventh century A.D., through the establishment of its administrative vocabulary, its literary tradition, its expansion as the language of trade in the thirteenth century, and its adoption by the British imperial administration in India, before being reduced to the modern role of national language in three countries (Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan) in the twentieth century. Two concluding chapters compare the history of written Persian with the parallel histories of Chinese and Latin, with special attention to the way its use was restricted and channeled by social practice. This is the first comparative study of the historical role of writing in three languages, including two in non-Roman scripts, over a period of two and a half millennia, providing an opportunity for reassessment of the work on literacy in English that has accumulated over the past half century. The editors take full advantage of this opportunity in their introductory essay.
Medieval Central Asia And The Persianate World
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Author : A.C.S. Peacock
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-08-30
Medieval Central Asia And The Persianate World written by A.C.S. Peacock and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-30 with Religion categories.
A.C.S. Peacock is Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews, and holds a PhD in Oriental Studies from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is the author of Early Seljuq History: A New Interpretation (2010), and is the co-editor of The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East (I.B.Tauris, 2012) and Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia (I.B.Tauris, 2013).D.G. Tor is Assistant Professor of Medieval Middle Eastern History at the University of Notre Dame, and holds a PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. She is the author of The Great Selkuq Sultanate and the Formation of Islamic Civilization: A Thematic History (forthcoming) and Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry and the 'Ayyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World (2007).
Medieval Central Asia And The Persianate World
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Author : Andrew C. S. Peacock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Medieval Central Asia And The Persianate World written by Andrew C. S. Peacock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Asia, Central categories.
India In The Persianate Age
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Author : Richard M. Eaton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-07-25
India In The Persianate Age written by Richard M. Eaton and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-25 with History categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymple, Spectator A sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival of the British The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast mountains and seas, it has created its own religions, philosophies and social systems. And yet this ancient land experienced prolonged and intense interaction with the peoples and cultures of East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa and, especially, Central Asia and the Iranian plateau between the eleventh and eighteenth centuries. Richard M. Eaton's wonderful new book tells this extraordinary story with relish and originality. His major theme is the rise of 'Persianate' culture - a many-faceted transregional world informed by a canon of texts that circulated through ever-widening networks across much of Asia. Introduced to India in the eleventh century by dynasties based in eastern Afghanistan, this culture would become thoroughly indigenized by the time of the great Mughals in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This long-term process of cultural interaction and assimilation is reflected in India's language, literature, cuisine, attire, religion, styles of rulership and warfare, science, art, music, architecture, and more. The book brilliantly elaborates the complex encounter between India's Sanskrit culture - which continued to flourish and grow throughout this period - and Persian culture, which helped shape the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire and a host of regional states, and made India what it is today.
Persianate Selves
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Author : Mana Kia
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Persianate Selves written by Mana Kia and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with History categories.
For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and Persians lived in many other lands as well. Thus to be Persian was to be embedded in a set of connections with people we today consider members of different groups. Persianate selfhood encompassed a broader range of possibilities than contemporary nationalist claims to place and origin allow. We cannot grasp these older connections without historicizing our conceptions of difference and affiliation. Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality. Adab was the basis of cohesion for self and community over the turbulent eighteenth century, as populations dispersed and centers of power shifted, disrupting the circulations that linked Persianate regions. Challenging the bases of protonationalist community, Persianate Selves seeks to make sense of an earlier transregional Persianate culture outside the anachronistic shadow of nationalisms.
In Quest Of Identity
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Author : Mirosław Michalak
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
In Quest Of Identity written by Mirosław Michalak and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Iran categories.
Revolutions Of The End Of Time Apocalypse Revolution And Reaction In The Persianate World
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Author : Saïd Amir Arjomand
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-12-05
Revolutions Of The End Of Time Apocalypse Revolution And Reaction In The Persianate World written by Saïd Amir Arjomand and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-05 with History categories.
A study of Mahdist movements focusing on abrupt discontinuities, revolutions as apocalyptic breaks, and on the reaction of the ruling authorities as counter-revolution, as reversion to continuity within a single civilizational zone defined by its cultural unity as the Persianate world.