Sood, Gagan D. S. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3489-4877
(2007)
"Correspondence is equal to half a meeting": the composition and comprehension of letters in eighteenth-century Islamic Eurasia.
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 50 (2/3).
pp. 172-214.
ISSN 0022-4995
Abstract
This article details the social and cultural mechanisms by which correspondence in Arabic- and Latin-script languages was written, understood and preserved in mid-eighteenth-century Islamic Eurasia. Aside from two major differences in letter-writing culture, which were embodied in the choice of script, the resident communities of Islamic Eurasia approached correspondence in a similar fashion. Perhaps surprisingly, there is no correlation between these practices and the author's ethnicity or nationality. This is strong evidence for the autonomy and universality of custom in a region on the cusp of massive changes in its relationship to Europe.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.brill.com/journal-economic-and-social-h... |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV |
| Divisions: | International History |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2014 14:47 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2024 04:06 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55964 |
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