Persianate selves : memories of place and origin before nationalism

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Persianate selves : memories of place and origin before nationalism

Title remainder

memories of place and origin before nationalism

Statement of responsibility

Mana Kia

Creator

• Kia, Mana

Subject

• Iran -- History -- 16th-18th centuries
• Iranians -- Ethnic identity | History -- 18th century
• Nationalism -- Iran -- History -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

"Persianate Selves challenges accepted notions of what it meant to be Persian in the eighteenth century. Drawing on commemorative texts, this book reveals that to be Persian was not necessarily to be Iranian. Persians hailed from a variety of places across Central, South, and West Asia, and their sense of self was not tied to modern ideas of nationalism, religion, or race. Mana Kia explores the common education and cultural logic that connected Persians, before the concept of the nation, describing how place, origin, and memory created a sense of self unbounded by the limits of colonial modernity"--

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Provided by publisher

Dewey number

305.89155009033

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Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography