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Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century - (I.B. Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature)

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  • Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeA wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian Sea during the seventeenth century, as merchants from South Asia traded goods in the ports of Yemen, noblemen from Safavid Iran established themselves in the courts of the Mughal Empire, and scholars from across the region came together to debate the Islamic sciences in the Arabian Peninsula's holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
  • About the Author: James White is the Oschinsky Research Fellow in medieval manuscripts at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Cambridge University Library.
  • 272 Pages
  • Poetry, Middle Eastern
  • Series Name: I.B. Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature

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An examination of interconnected Persian and Arabic literary networks in 17th-century Iran, Arabia and India.



Book Synopsis



Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize

A wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian Sea during the seventeenth century, as merchants from South Asia traded goods in the ports of Yemen, noblemen from Safavid Iran established themselves in the courts of the Mughal Empire, and scholars from across the region came together to debate the Islamic sciences in the Arabian Peninsula's holy cities of Mecca and Medina. This book demonstrates that the globalising tendency of migration created worldly literary systems which linked Iran, India and the Arabian Peninsula through the production and circulation of classicizing Arabic and Persian poetry. By close reading over seventy unstudied manuscripts of seventeenth-century Arabic and Persian poetry that have remained hidden on the shelves of libraries in India, Iran, Turkey and Europe, the book examines how migrant poets adapted shared poetic forms, imagery and rhetoric to engage with their interlocutors and create communities in the cities where they settled. The book begins by reconstructing overarching patterns in the movement of over a thousand authors, and the economic basis for their migration, before focusing on six case studies of literary communities, which each represent a different location in the circulatory system of the Arabian Sea. In so doing, the book demonstrates the plurality of seventeenth-century aesthetic movements, a diversity which later nationalisms purposefully simplified and misread.



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"This is a groundbreaking study of the circulation of Arabic and Persian poetry and poets in the Western Indian Ocean world, meticulously researched, drawing on a wealth of unpublished manuscript material." --Andrew Peacock, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic History, University of St Andrews, UK

"A landmark contribution in the field of Persianate studies, James White's erudite study introduces readers to a vibrant multilingual republic of letters in the littoral communities of the Arabian Sea in the early modern period. We gain expert insight into the workings of a transnational network of men of letters, some familiar names from published scholarship, others freshly resurrected from the archives, as they travelled and interacted with other poets, and read, composed, and anthologized poetry. The interspersed elegant translations and close readings of poems showcase an astounding breadth of scholarship." --Professor Sunil Sharma, Boston University, USA

"Now and then one comes across a volume that speaks and excites in such a manner that, instead of the critical stance in which one thinks: that is not how I would have written it, one wonders: wow, this is the book that I wish I had written!" --The Muslim World Book Review




About the Author



James White is the Oschinsky Research Fellow in medieval manuscripts at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Cambridge University Library. He was previously Departmental Lecturer of Persian Literature at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford University.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .63 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.23 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 272
Series Title: I.B. Tauris Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Persian Literature
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Middle Eastern
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Format: Hardcover
Author: James White
Language: English
Street Date: July 13, 2023
TCIN: 90803248
UPC: 9780755644568
Item Number (DPCI): 247-26-7273
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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