Persianate Selves - 9781503610682

Persianate SelvesMemories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism\nAuthor(s): Mana Kia\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503610682, 978-1503610682\nSynopsis\nFor 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. \n\n Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing pl.