Persianate Selves

Persianate Selves
Author :
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 386
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781503611962
ISBN-13 : 1503611965
Rating : 4/5 (965 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Persianate Selves by : Mana Kia

Download or read book Persianate Selves written by Mana Kia and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and Persians lived in many other lands as well. Thus to be Persian was to be embedded in a set of connections with people we today consider members of different groups. Persianate selfhood encompassed a broader range of possibilities than contemporary nationalist claims to place and origin allow. We cannot grasp these older connections without historicizing our conceptions of difference and affiliation. Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality. Adab was the basis of cohesion for self and community over the turbulent eighteenth century, as populations dispersed and centers of power shifted, disrupting the circulations that linked Persianate regions. Challenging the bases of protonationalist community, Persianate Selves seeks to make sense of an earlier transregional Persianate culture outside the anachronistic shadow of nationalisms.


Persianate Selves Related Books

Persianate Selves
Language: en
Pages: 386
Authors: Mana Kia
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-19 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

GET EBOOK

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
Your Symphony of Selves
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: James Fadiman
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-04 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

Why you are a different you at different times and how that’s both normal and healthy • Reveals that each of us is made up of multiple selves, any of which
All By My Selves
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jeff Dunham
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-06 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

"The most popular standup comic in the U.S." --Time Whether he's breathing life into Walter, an old curmudgeon; Peanut, an over-caffeinated purple maniac; or Ac
Selves
Language: en
Pages: 469
Authors: Galen Strawson
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-30 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Is there such a thing as the self? If so, what is it? We all have experience of having or being a self, a hidden inner mental presence. Galen Strawson argues th
Shared Selves
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Suzanne Bost
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-30 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

GET EBOOK

Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on sel