The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca 9780520972100

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The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
9780520972100

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Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
A Note on Transliteration
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800–1900)
Part I. Pan-Eurasian Expansions, ca. 1400–1600
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
Part II. The Constraints of Cosmopolitanism, ca. 1600–1800
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
Part III. New Empires, New Nations, ca. 1800–1920
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

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