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alusur-8433	Sharma, Sunil	Nile Green, ed., The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca & Abbas Amanat and Assef Ashraf, eds., The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere	2020	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2626	81	41	The underlying questions in the volume edited by Amanat and Ashraf, as articulated in the introduction by Ashraf and the first essay by Amanat (“Remembering the Persianate”), are whether the “category of Iran” can effectively be marginalized in Persianate studies, and how Iranian studies—the concern is mainly with the discipline of history—can avoid the pitfalls of “parochialism and essentialism” (p . 13) . Stressing the existence of a vast sociocultural sphere connected by Persophonie (fārsī-zabān), a harmonious “comfort zone,” the editors emphasize the viability of Persianate studies as an academic field whose purview extends beyond language and literature.	cache/alusur-8433.pdf	txt/alusur-8433.txt