Literacy in the Persianate World : : Writing and the Social Order /

Literacy in the Persianate World : : Writing and the Social Order / / ed. by William L. Hanaway, Brian Spooner.

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Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed-first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic-from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries it served a broader geographica...

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MitwirkendeR:
Aslam Syed, Muhammad,
Darling, Linda T.,
Farrell, Joseph,
Fisher, Michael H.,
Hanaway, William L.,
Mair, Victor H.,
Mitchell, Colin P.,
Moazzam, Anwar,
Morgan, David,
Morton, A.H.,
Nawid, Senzil,
Perry, John R.,
Spooner, Brian,
HerausgeberIn:
Hanaway, William L.,
Spooner, Brian,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Note on Transliteration and Referencing
  • Introduction. Persian as Koine: Written Persian in World-historical Perspective
  • Part One: Foundations
  • 1. New Persian: Expansion, Standardization, and Inclusivity
  • 2. Secretaries, Poets, and the Literary Language
  • 3. The Transmission of Persian Texts Compared to the Case of Classical Latin
  • Part Two: Spread
  • 4. Persian as a Lingua Franca in the Mongol Empire
  • 5. Ottoman Turkish: Written Language and Scribal Practice, 13th to 20th Centuries
  • 6. Persian Rhetoric in the Safavid Context: A 16th Century Nurbakhshiyya Treatise on Inshā
  • Part Three: Vernacularization and Nationalism
  • 7. Historiography in the Sadduzai Era: Language and Narration
  • 8 How Could Urdu Be the Envy of Persian (rashk-i-Fārsi)!
  • 9. Urdu Inshā: The Hyderābād Experiment, 1860-1948
  • 10. Teaching Persian as an Imperial Language in India and in England during the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
  • Part Four: The Larger Context
  • 11. The Latinate Tradition as a Point of Reference
  • 12 Persian Scribes (munshi) and Chinese Literati (ru)
  • Afterword
  • Glossary
  • Index

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