James White is the Oschinsky Research Fellow in medieval manuscripts at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Cambridge University Library. He was previously Departmental Lecturer of Persian Literature at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University.

• Part I: Distant Readings in Seventeenth-Century MigrationIntroduction: Connected Literary HistoryChapter 1: Society in MotionPart II: Close Readings of Literary NetworksChapter 2: Hyderabad: Ibn Ma'sumChapter 3: San'a': al-Sarim al-HindiChapter 4: Mashhad: al-Hurr al-'AmiliChapter 5: Hyderabad: Faraj Allah al-Shushtari and Salik YazdiChapter 6: Kabul and North India: Sa'ib, Ilahi, Ahsan and AshnaChapter 7: Isfahan: Salim, Darvish Yusuf, and AkbarConclusionsManuscript Sources: Sigla, Bibliographical References, and DescriptionsNotesBibliography of Print WorksIndex

This is a groundbreaking study of the circulation of Arabic and Persian poetry and poets in the Western Indian Ocean world, meticulously researched, drawing on a wealth of unpublished manuscript material.

James White is the Oschinsky Research Fellow in medieval manuscripts at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Cambridge University Library. He was previously Departmental Lecturer of Persian Literature at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University.

• Part I: Distant Readings in Seventeenth-Century MigrationIntroduction: Connected Literary HistoryChapter 1: Society in MotionPart II: Close Readings of Literary NetworksChapter 2: Hyderabad: Ibn Ma'sumChapter 3: San'a': al-Sarim al-HindiChapter 4: Mashhad: al-Hurr al-'AmiliChapter 5: Hyderabad: Faraj Allah al-Shushtari and Salik YazdiChapter 6: Kabul and North India: Sa'ib, Ilahi, Ahsan and AshnaChapter 7: Isfahan: Salim, Darvish Yusuf, and AkbarConclusionsManuscript Sources: Sigla, Bibliographical References, and DescriptionsNotesBibliography of Print WorksIndex

This is a groundbreaking study of the circulation of Arabic and Persian poetry and poets in the Western Indian Ocean world, meticulously researched, drawing on a wealth of unpublished manuscript material.

James White is the Oschinsky Research Fellow in medieval manuscripts at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Cambridge University Library. He was previously Departmental Lecturer of Persian Literature at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University.

• Part I: Distant Readings in Seventeenth-Century MigrationIntroduction: Connected Literary HistoryChapter 1: Society in MotionPart II: Close Readings of Literary NetworksChapter 2: Hyderabad: Ibn Ma'sumChapter 3: San'a': al-Sarim al-HindiChapter 4: Mashhad: al-Hurr al-'AmiliChapter 5: Hyderabad: Faraj Allah al-Shushtari and Salik YazdiChapter 6: Kabul and North India: Sa'ib, Ilahi, Ahsan and AshnaChapter 7: Isfahan: Salim, Darvish Yusuf, and AkbarConclusionsManuscript Sources: Sigla, Bibliographical References, and DescriptionsNotesBibliography of Print WorksIndex

This is a groundbreaking study of the circulation of Arabic and Persian poetry and poets in the Western Indian Ocean world, meticulously researched, drawing on a wealth of unpublished manuscript material.