A Linguistic Conversion

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_328
dc.contributor.author	Pellò Stefano
dc.title	A Linguistic Conversion. Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥasan Qatīl and the Varieties of Persian (ca. 1790)
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The paper deals with Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥasan Qatīl, an important Persian-writing Khatri poet and intellectual active in Lucknow between the end of the 18th and the first two decades of the 19th century, focusing on his ideas regarding the linguistic geography of Persian. Qatīl dealt with the geographical varieties of Persian mainly in two texts, namely the Shajarat al-amānī and the Nahr al-faṣāḥat, but relevant observations are scattered in almost all of his works, including the doxographic Haft tamāshā. The analysis provided here, which is also the first systematic study on a particularly meaningful part of Qatīl’s socio-linguistic thought and one of the very few explorations of Qatīl’s work altogether, not only examines in detail his grammatical and rhetorical treatises, reading them on the vast background of Arabic-Persian philology, but discusses as well the interaction of Qatīl’s early conversion to Shi‘ite Islam with the author’s linguistic ideas, in a philological-historical perspective.
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-08-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-101-0/a-linguistic-conversion/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-100-3/EUR-5-9
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-101-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-100-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Conversion
dc.subject	Conversion
dc.subject	Indo-Persian
dc.subject	Indo-Persian
dc.subject	Lucknow
dc.subject	Lucknow
dc.subject	Persian language
dc.subject	Persian language
dc.subject	Qatīl
dc.subject	Qatīl
dc.subject	Shī‘a
dc.subject	Shī‘a

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A Linguistic Conversion

Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥasan Qatīl and the Varieties of Persian (ca. 1790)

Stefano Pellò Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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The paper deals with Mīrzā Muḥammad Ḥasan Qatīl, an important Persian-writing Khatri poet and intellectual active in Lucknow between the end of the 18th and the first two decades of the 19th century, focusing on his ideas regarding the linguistic geography of Persian. Qatīl dealt with the geographical varieties of Persian mainly in two texts, namely the Shajarat al-amānī and the Nahr al-faṣāḥat, but relevant observations are scattered in almost all of his works, including the doxographic Haft tamāshā. The analysis provided here, which is also the first systematic study on a particularly meaningful part of Qatīl’s socio-linguistic thought and one of the very few explorations of Qatīl’s work altogether, not only examines in detail his grammatical and rhetorical treatises, reading them on the vast background of Arabic-Persian philology, but discusses as well the interaction of Qatīl’s early conversion to Shi‘ite Islam with the author’s linguistic ideas, in a philological-historical perspective.

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978-88-6969-101-0

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Keywords: Lucknow • Indo-Persian • Persian language • Shī‘a • Qatīl • Conversion

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