LEADER 04317nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910463717903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89887-X 010 $a1-934536-56-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9781934536568 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065788 035 $a(EBL)3441892 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631128 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11441153 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631128 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10591816 035 $a(PQKB)10559663 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441892 035 $a(OCoLC)794700820 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17657 035 $a(DE-B1597)449543 035 $a(OCoLC)1002222074 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781934536568 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441892 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642227 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421137 035 $a(OCoLC)932312716 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065788 100 $a20111024d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aLiteracy in the Persianate world$b[electronic resource] $ewriting and the social order /$fedited by Brian Spooner and William L. Hanaway 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (456 p.) 225 0$aPenn Museum international research conferences ;$vv. 4 300 $aMaps on lining papers. 311 $a1-934536-45-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Foundations -- pt. 2. Spread -- pt. 3. Vernacularization and nationalism -- pt. 4. The larger context. 330 $aPersian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed-first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic-from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries it served a broader geographical area than any language in world history. It was the primary language of administration and belles lettres from the Balkans under the earlier Ottoman Empire to Central China under the Mongols, and from the northern branches of the Silk Road in Central Asia to southern India under the Mughal Empire. Its history is therefore crucial for understanding the function of writing in world history.Each of the chapters of Literacy in the Persianate World opens a window onto a particular stage of this history, starting from the reemergence of Persian in the Arabic script after the Arab-Islamic conquest in the seventh century A.D., through the establishment of its administrative vocabulary, its literary tradition, its expansion as the language of trade in the thirteenth century, and its adoption by the British imperial administration in India, before being reduced to the modern role of national language in three countries (Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan) in the twentieth century. Two concluding chapters compare the history of written Persian with the parallel histories of Chinese and Latin, with special attention to the way its use was restricted and channeled by social practice.This is 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, providing an opportunity for reassessment of the work on literacy in English that has accumulated over the past half century. The editors take full advantage of this opportunity in their introductory essay.PMIRC, volume 4 606 $aPersian language$xHistory 606 $aPersian language$xWritten Persian$xHistory 606 $aWriting$zIran$xHistory 606 $aLiteracy$zIran$xHistory 607 $aIran$xIntellectual life 607 $aIran$xSocial life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPersian language$xHistory. 615 0$aPersian language$xWritten Persian$xHistory. 615 0$aWriting$xHistory. 615 0$aLiteracy$xHistory. 676 $a491/.5509 701 $aSpooner$b Brian$0642608 701 $aHanaway$b William L.$f1929-$01049172 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463717903321 996 $aLiteracy in the Persianate world$92477954 997 $aUNINA