The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere

✍ Scribed by Abbas Amanat (editor), Assef Ashraf (editor)

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Series: Iran Studies 18
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction: Pathways to the Persianate 1Assef Ashraf
1 Remembering the Persianate • Abbas Amanat
2 The Persian Cosmopolis (900–1900) and the Sanskrit Cosmopolis (400–1400) • Richard M. Eaton
3 Living in Marvelous Lands: Persianate Vernacular Literatures and Cosmographical Imaginaires around the Bay of Bengal • Thibaut d’Hubert
4 The Politics of Saint Shrines in the Persianate Empires • A. Azfar Moin
5 From Yarkand to Sindh via Kabul: The Rise of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries • Waleed Ziad
6 Lives of the Enikolopians: Multilingualism and the Religious-National Identity of a Caucasus Family in the Persianate World • Hirotake Maeda
7 Inclusion and Exclusion in the “Persianate World”: Views of Baluch People in the Nineteenth Century • Joanna de Groot
8 The Antipodes of “Progress”: A Journey to the End of Indo-Persian • Nile Green
Index