Persianate World - The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua FrancaPaperback / softback
Persianate World - The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua FrancaPaperback / softback A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the…
Specifikacia Persianate World - The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua FrancaPaperback / softback
Persianate World - The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua FrancaPaperback / softback
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact, and mechanisms remain underexplored. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history.
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. 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. 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
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