Abbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Iran: A Modern History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).Assef Ashraf (Ph.D., 2016, Yale University) is University Lecturer in the Eastern Islamic World and Persian-Speaking Lands at the University of Cambridge.Contributors:Joanna de Groot, Thibaut d’Hubert, Richard M. Eaton, Nile Green, Hirotake Maeda, A. Azfar Moin, and Waleed Ziad.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Pathways to the PersianateAssef Ashraf1 Remembering the PersianateAbbas Amanat2 The Persian Cosmopolis (900–1900) and the Sanskrit Cosmopolis (400–1400)Richard M. Eaton3 Living in Marvelous Lands: Persianate Vernacular Literatures and Cosmographical Imaginaires around the Bay of BengalThibaut d’Hubert4 The Politics of Saint Shrines in the Persianate EmpiresA. Azfar Moin5 From Yarkand to Sindh via Kabul: The Rise of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesWaleed Ziad6 Lives of the Enikolopians: Multilingualism and the Religious-National Identity of a Caucasus Family in the Persianate WorldHirotake Maeda7 Inclusion and Exclusion in the “Persianate World”: Views of Baluch People in the Nineteenth CenturyJoanna de Groot8 The Antipodes of “Progress”: A Journey to the End of Indo-PersianNile GreenIndex