Screen LibraryLiteracy in the persianate world : writing and the social order /
This book offers the first comparative study of the historical role of writing in three languages, including two in non-Roman scripts, over a period of two and a half millennia, which provides an opportunity for reassessment of the work on literacy in English that has accumulated over the past half...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2012] ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This book offers the first comparative study of the historical role of writing in three languages, including two in non-Roman scripts, over a period of two and a half millennia, which provides an opportunity for reassessment of the work on literacy in English that has accumulated over the past half century. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (456 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781934536568 |
| Index Number: | PK6225 |
| CLC: | H733-09 |
| 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 / 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 / 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 Insh / 7. Historiography in the Sadduzai Era: Language and Narration / 8 How Could Urdu Be the Envy of Persian (rashk-i-F rsi)! / 9. Urdu Insh : The Hyder b d Experiment, 1860 1948 / 10. Teaching Persian as an Imperial Language in India and in England during the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries / 11. The Latinate Tradition as a Point of Reference / 12 Persian Scribes (munshi) and Chinese Literati (ru) / Afterword -- Glossary -- Index. |