The Making of Persianate Modernity

Language and Literary History between Iran and India
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-32081-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: The Global Middle East

From the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, Persian was the pre-eminent language of learning far beyond Iran, stretching from the Balkans to China. In this book, Alexander Jabbari explores what became of this vast Persian literary heritage in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Iran and South Asia, as nationalism took hold and the Persianate world fractured into nation-states. He shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared past to produce a 'Persianate modernity', and create a modern genre, literary history. Drawing from both Persian and Urdu sources, Jabbari reveals the important role that South Asian Muslims played in developing Iranian intellectual and literary trends. Highlighting cultural exchange in the region, and the agency of Asian modernizers, Jabbari charts a new way forward for area studies and opens exciting possibilities for thinking about language and literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jabbari, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Connections; 1. Histories: from Tazkirah to literary history; 2. Erotics: from bawdy to bashfulness; 3. Origin myths: indigeneity and hybridity in national narratives; 4. Print: typography, orthography, punctuation; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Jabbari, Alexander
Alexander Jabbari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is a literary historian working on the literature, history, and philology of the Middle East and South Asia. His research has been published in Iranian Studies, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Journal of Persianate Studies, International Journal of Islam in Asia, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and elsewhere.