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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Vi

The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions

Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script c

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymp

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through w