Persianate World

Nile Green holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Sufism: A Global History and Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam and editor of Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban.

• List of Maps and IllustrationsA Note on TransliterationPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800–1900)Nile GreenPart I. Pan-Eurasian Expansions, ca. 1400–16001. Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in theOttoman WorldMurat Umut Inan2. Persian at the Court or in the Village? The Elusive Presence of Persianin BengalThibaut d’Hubert3. The Uses of Persian in Imperial China: Translating Practices at theMing CourtGraeme Ford4. Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers inMuslim Inner AsiaDevin DeWeesePart II. The Constraints of Cosmopolitanism, ca. 1600–18005. Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian ScholarlyNetworks in Mughal PunjabPurnima Dhavan6. A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing ChinaDavid Brophyviii Contents7. Speaking “Bukharan”: The Circulation of Persian Texts inImperial RussiaAlfrid Bustanov8. Lingua Franca or Lingua Magica? Talismanic Scrolls fromEastern TurkistanAlexandre PapasPart III. New Empires, New Nations, ca. 1800–19209. Conflicting Meanings of Persianate Culture: An Intimate Examplefrom Colonial India and BritainMichael H. Fisher10. De-Persifying Court Culture: The Khanate of Khiva’s TranslationProgramMarc Toutant11. Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed fromColonial DaghestanRebecca Ruth Gould12. From Peshawar to Tehran: An Anti-imperialist Poet of the LatePersianate MilieuAbbas AmanatEpilogue: The Persianate MillenniumBrian SpoonerGlossaryList of ContributorsIndex

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