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After the fall of the Sassanian Empire and with it the gradual decline of Middle Persian as a literary language, New Persian literature emerged in Transoxiana, beyond the frontiers of present-day Iran, and was written and read in India even before it became firmly established in cities such as Isfahan on the Iranian plateau. Over the course of a millennium (ca. 900–1900 CE), Persian established itself as a contact vernacular and an international literary language from Sarajevo to Madras, with Persian poetry serving as a universal cultural cachet for literati both Muslim and non-Muslim. The role of Persian, beyond its early habitat of Iran and other Islamic lands, has long been recognized: European scholars first came to Persian via Turkey and British orientalists via India. Yet the universal popularity of poets such as Sa'di and Hâfez of Shiraz and the ultimate rise of Iran to claim the centre of Persian writing and scholarship led to a relative neglect of the Persianate periphery until recently. This volume contributes to the scholarship of the Persianate fringe with the aid of the abundant material (notably in Tajik, Uzbek and Russian) long neglected by Western scholars and the perspectives of a new generation on this complex and important aspect of Persian literature.

Persian literature --- Persian literature. --- History and criticism. --- Old Persian inscriptions --- Pahlavi literature --- Iranian literature --- Iranian literature. --- Old Persian inscriptions. --- Pahlavi literature. --- Avestisch. --- Altpersisch. --- Mittelpersisch. --- Manichäer. --- Sogdisch. --- Sakisch. --- Folk literature, Persian. --- Iranische Sprachen. --- Mündliche Literatur. --- Oralliteratur --- Persisch. --- Volksliteratur --- Volksliteratur. --- Folk literature. --- Special interest --- Literatur. --- Travel --- Literary criticism --- Literary. --- General. --- Historiography --- Historiography. --- History. --- Iran. --- 1900-1999. --- History --- Littérature iranienne --- Littérature populaire persane --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature iranienne --- Littérature populaire persane