| ID | 185874 |
| Title Proper | From Persianate Cosmopolis to Persianate Modernity |
| Other Title Information | Translating from Urdu to Persian in Twentieth-Century Iran and Afghanistan |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Jabbari, Alexander |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article examines twentieth-century Persian translations of Urdu-language works about Persian literature, focusing on two different Persian translations of an influential Urdu-language work on Persian literary history, Shiʿr al-ʿAjam (Poetry of the Persians), by Shibli Nuʿmani. The article offers a close, comparative reading of the Afghan and Iranian translations of Shiʿr al-ʿAjam in order to understand why two Persian translations of this voluminous text were published within such a short time period. These translations reveal how Indians, Afghans, and Iranians were invested in the same Persianate heritage, yet the emergence of a “Persianate modernity” undergirded by a cultural logic of nationalism rather than cosmopolitanism, along with Iran’s and Afghanistan’s differing relationships to India and Urdu, produced distinct approaches to translation. |
| `In' analytical Note | Iranian Studies Vol. 55, No.3; Jul 2022: p.611 - 630 |
| Journal Source | Iranian Studies Vol: 55 No 3 |
| Key Words | Nationalism ; Iran ; Afghanistan ; Translation ; Persianate ; Urdu ; Adab ; Persian Literature |