Traces the emergence of literary history, showing how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared heritage to produce a 'Persianate modernity'.

From the ninth to the nineteenth centuries, Persian was the pre-eminent language of learning far beyond Iran, stretching from the Balkans to China. In this book

The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.

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

The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian literature in translation, discusses the development o