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About the book
The language: Persian
Persian is an important lingua franca in world history, recognized as a shared language within and outside the Islamic world. Yet its reach and influence are still insufficiently explored. The Persianate World explores premodern cosmopolitanism and maps the geographical, literary, and social boundaries of Persian.
Contents
- From Siberia to Southeast Asia, and from London to Beijing
- The rise, preservation, and loss of Persian as an Eurasian language
- Fourteen essays on the interactions of Persian with languages such as Bengali, Chinese, Turkish, and Punjabi
- Analysis of the factors behind the spread of "Persographia", the written Persian domain
The Persianate World provides a critical overview of the expansion and contraction of one of the most important languages for global exchange in history.