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The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca

Green, Nile

Paperback

Miscellaneous LanguagesIslamIran History

ISBN10: 0520300920
ISBN13: 9780520300927
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 9 2019
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 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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