Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India

Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize

A wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the Arabian Sea during the seventeenth century, as merchants from South Asia traded goods in the ports of Yemen, noblemen from Safavid Iran established themselves in the courts of the Mughal Empire, and scholars from across the region came together to debate the Islamic sciences in the Arabian Peninsula's holy cities of...