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The Making of Persianate Modernity offers a comprehensive analysis of how Persian language and literature influenced the modernization process in Iran and India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Alexander Jabbari traces the intellectual genealogy of Persianate culture, demonstrating the significant role literary traditions played in constructing modern identities.
Through detailed examination of Persian texts, poets, and scholars, Jabbari illuminates the complex relationships between linguistic heritage and contemporary cultural expression. The book challenges conventional narratives of modernization by centering Persianate intellectual traditions rather than viewing them as peripheral to Western-dominated modernity. This groundbreaking study reveals how communities across Iran and the Indian subcontinent engaged with classical Persian literature to negotiate their place in the modern world, creating distinctive forms of cultural modernity rooted in Islamic intellectual history.
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