The making of Persianate modernity : language and literary history between Iran and India /

"Tracing the emergence of literary history, Alexander Jabbari shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared literary heritage to produce a 'Persianate modernity' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using both Urdu and Persian-language sources, Jabbari examines how...

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Main Author: Jabbari, Alexander (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY ; India : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Edition:First paperback edition 2025.
Series:The global Middle East
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Summary:"Tracing the emergence of literary history, Alexander Jabbari shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared literary heritage to produce a 'Persianate modernity' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using both Urdu and Persian-language sources, Jabbari examines how intellectual exchange across the region made national cultures"--
Item Description:First publish 2023
Physical Description:xviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781009320818
9781009320863
9781009320825