The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the defining features of the Persianate world from a variety of historical perspectives.

Abbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Iran: A Modern History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017). Assef Ashraf (Ph.D., 2016, Yale University) is University Lecturer in the Eastern Islamic World and Persian-Speaking Lands at the University of Cambridge. Contributors: Joanna de Groot, Thibaut d'Hubert, Richard Eaton, Nile Green, Hirotake Maeda, A. Azfar Moin, Waleed Ziad.