The Persianate world : the frontiers of a Eurasian lingua franca Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond its scope impact and mechanisms remain underexplored. A world historical inquiry into pre modern cosmopolitanism The Persianate World traces the reach and limits of Persian as a Eurasian language in a comprehensive survey of its geographical literary and social frontiers. From Siberia to Southeast Asia and between London and Beijing this book shows how Persian gained maintained and finally surrendered its status to imperial and vernacular competitors. Capturing the Persianate as process fourteen essays trace Persians interactions with Bengali Chinese Turkic and Punjabi to identify the forces that extended Persographia  the domain of written Persian. Spanning the ages expansion and contraction The Persianate World offers a critical survey of both the supports and constraints of one of historys key languages of global exchange Provided by publisher Introduction : the frontiers of the Persianate world Nile Green Imperial ambitions mystical aspirations: Persian learning in the Ottoman world Murat Umut Inan Persian at the court or in the village The elusive presence of Persian in Bengal Thibaut dHubert The uses of Persian in imperial China : translating practices at the Ming court Graeme Ford Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk : literary frontiers in Muslim inner Asia Devin Deweese Marking boundaries and building bridges : Persian scholarly networks in Mughal Punjab Purnima Dhavan A lingua franca in decline The place of Persian in Qing China David Brophy Speaking Bukharan : the circulation of Persian texts in imperial Russia Alfrid Bustanov Lingua franca or lingua magica Talismanic scrolls from eastern Turkestan Alexandre Papas Conflicting meanings of Persianate culture: an intimate example from colonial India and Britain Michael H. Fisher De persifying court culture : the Khanate of Khivas translation program Marc Toutant Dissidence from a distance : the Iranian constitutional revolution viewed from Russian Daghestan Rebecca Ruth Gould From Peshawar to Tehran : an anti imperialist poet of the late Persianate milieu Abbas Amanat Epilogue : the Persianate millennium Brian spooner