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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The global Middle EastPublication details: Cambridge ; New York, NY ; India : Cambridge University Press, 2025.Edition: First paperback edition 2025Description: xviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781009320818
  • 9781009320863
  • 9781009320825
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.55 23/eng/20221207
LOC classification:
  • PK6412.M63 J33 2023
Contents:
Histories : from Tazkirah to literary history -- Erotics : from bawdy to bashfulness -- Origin myths : indigeneity and hybridity in national narratives -- Print : typography, orthography, punctuation.
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"--
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Book Book Ayesha Abed Library New Arrivals Ayesha Abed Library New Arrivals 891.55 JAB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 3010045362
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First publish 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Histories : from Tazkirah to literary history -- Erotics : from bawdy to bashfulness -- Origin myths : indigeneity and hybridity in national narratives -- Print : typography, orthography, punctuation.

"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"--

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