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 intellectual exchange across the region made national cultures"--

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Jabbari, Alexander (University of Minnesota) Jabbari
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009320818
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0932081-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: The Global Middle East
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Islamic Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Social and cultural anthropology, Middle Eastern history, Asian History, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Literature: history and criticism, Language: history and general works, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Indo-Iranian Languages, Relating to people of the South Asian diasporas / heritage